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Yemen Launches Campaign to Disarm Citizens

20 June 1999

Reuters

SANAA — Yemen on Saturday started a campaign to take weapons away from its heavily armed population, residents and local media reported. Witnesses in the capital said security forces patrolled the streets and set up check points in search of weapons. The official newspaper Al-Thawra said the government campaign, the third in less than two years, followed 10 shooting incidents last week in which three people, including a six-year-old child, were killed. A security... (GunPolicy.org)

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