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Australians in PNG Guns-for-Drugs Deals
9 September 2000
Sydney Morning Herald
An elaborate network of Australian and Asian criminals is smuggling thousands of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, some of which were hidden during Australia's 1996 gun amnesty, into the Papua New Guinea highlands in exchange for top quality marijuana.
The weapons — which include M-16s, AK-47s, SLRs and automatic shotguns — are being used extensively in murderous tribal fights in and around the Western Highlands town of Mount Hagen, where police are fighting a... (GunPolicy.org)
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