These weapons were manufactured and designed in more than two dozen countries, including Russia, China, the US and European Union states, according to the report.
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The Amnesty report states that arms and ammunition used by ISIS have been traced to at least 25 different countries.
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It has been reported that Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armoured vehicles when Isis overran the northern city of Mosul.
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“It finds that there is a close match between the types of weapons now being used by the IS and the inventory of the Iraqi military, built up over the past five decades”.
Weapons supplied by the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to rebel groups fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also routinely end up in the hands of Islamic extremists, when rebels defect or are captured.
The report points out several instances of ISIS militants seizing large caches of weapons as their territory expanded in Iraq.
“Poor regulation and lack of oversight of the enormous arms flows into Iraq going back decades have given IS and other armed groups a bonanza of unprecedented access to firepower”, Wilcken added.
“The global community must learn from past mistakes and take urgent measures to reduce the proliferation of weapons in Iraq, in Syria, and countries or regions of instability”.
“Decades of free-flowing arms into Iraq meant that when IS took control of these areas, they were like children in a sweetshop”.
We’re calling on all countries to stop arming Syrian government forces and armed opposition groups implicated in war crimes.
Campaign Against Arms Trade spokesman Andrew Smith said the situation showed that essentially “there’s no such thing as arms control”, with weapons outlasting the governments to which they have been sold.
Obama reiterated Sunday night that the United States will not get in a ground war in Iraq or Syria, claiming that ISIS wants a ground war in order to recruit new members.
An Amnesty International report has detailed how the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group obtained the bulk of their vast arms supply from the Iraqi army.
“Hundreds of thousands of those weapons went missing and are still unaccounted for”. These arms were being used in Iraq and Syria by the ISIS.
“The big takeaway for us is that you have to look historically at this and the long process whereby states often recklessly and irresponsibly send arms to Iraq… often in a very uncoordinated and chaotic manner”, Wilcken said.
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When arms are transferred, Amnesty says there must be pre- and post-delivery controls to manage their use.
