Articles by Mujib Mashal
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Just How Dangerous Are ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons?
Mujib Mashal – Al Jazeera,
28 Nov 2011
From Egypt, to Athens, to Oakland, police have employed “non-lethal weapons” to break down recent protests and disperse protesters. As crowds have swelled to express discontent, variations of tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, and stun grenades have been fired back at them. The US defence department describes non-lethal weapons as “primarily employed to immediately incapacitate targeted personnel or materiel, while minimising fatalities, permanent injury to personnel … in the target area or environment.
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