What he did not want to see were photos of blood, weapons, conflict and death.
A weapons conflict for the sake of power When two elephants are fighting The grass they will suffer Which is the position of the civilians, I cry.
But there is no reason to question this film's authenticity, and nothing softens the impact of the very first shots: In a hut lighted at night by a single bulb the All Stars practice "A Weapons Conflict," while scenes are intercut of combat, and victims, and machete survivors, and the camps.
It now has official standing along with the proliferation of nuclear weapons, conflict in the Middle East, landmines, and poverty as something that causes harm to people within and beyond conflict zones.
Britain is the second biggest arms dealer in the world, with most of the weapons fuelling conflicts in the Middle East.
In response to the crisis in Iraq, Germany has decided to arm Kurdish forces fighting extremists, putting aside its usual reluctance to send weapons into conflicts.
But the treaty will, its proponents hope, stem the flow of weapons into conflicts where they could be used to commit atrocities or attack civilians.
The guns in combat games are now brand-name weapons, the conflicts in them are often based on real wars, and each hair on a virtual soldier's head has been numbered by some wearied 3-D modeller.
It says these include terrorism, the spread of nuclear weapons, regional conflicts around the world and threats to the economic prosperity of the UK.
Higgins — a blogger better known by his online handle "Brown Moses" — uses open-source information to study the origins of weapons in conflicts.
