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Uganda Home to 50,000 Illegal Firearms Amid Fears of Growing Gun Culture
6 November 2006
Daily Monitor (Kampala), Column
Marauding Karimojong warriors struck again last week, killing 22 people including a battalion commander. This figure only accounts for fallen army servicemen.
The death toll on the civilian population — that is suffering this vicious cycle of violence — is unknown though believed to be in double figures.
Decades of cattle rustling by the Karimojong warriors is part of a wider Ugandan problem — the gun culture that has bred violence in almost every part of this... (GunPolicy.org)