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Alpers, Philip. 2005 ‘The Human Cost of Armed Violence: Crime with Guns.’ Gun-running in Papua New Guinea: From arrows to assault weapons in the Southern Highlands; Special Report No. 5, pp. 87-88. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 1 July

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The Human Cost of Armed Violence: Crime with Guns

Says National Court Justice Nicholas Kirriwom: 'Crimes of violence against persons and properties using high-powered military issue weapons and home-made guns are endemic throughout the country' (Post- Courier, 2002g).

In August 2004, Internal Security [Police] Minister Bire Kimisopa told a reporter: 'Guns were used in nearly all serious crimes committed in Papua New Guinea over the past ten years… among the three top categories of crime - robbery, break and enter and murder - at least 90 percent of reported cases were gun related'.

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