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Mon, Mar 19, 2012

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Graphic on the findings of a new study of the global arms trade, released Monday, that says Asia and Oceania accounted for 44 percent of conventional arms imports in the past five years
Graphic on the findings of a new study of the global arms trade, released Monday, that says Asia and Oceania accounted for 44 percent of conventional arms imports in the past five years

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