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New Guns Smuggled Into Uganda from Europe, Says Army
18 August 2006
New Times / AND
The chief of personnel and administration in the Uganda People's Defence Forces,
Col Phenehas Katirima, told parliament that new guns suspected to have been smuggled from European countries are held by Karamojong warriors and other groups.
"Brand new guns from western Europe, across the Mediterranean and the Middle East have been seen in Karamoja. I am very sure they are not from Africa," Katirima told legislators on the Defence and Internal Affairs parliamentary... (GunPolicy.org)