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Rap Star, Ex-Child Soldier Urges UN to Curb Guns, 'The Real WMDs'
14 July 2008
International Action Network on Small Arms (London), Media release
Emmanuel Jal, former child soldier and international rap star, will address the United Nations on Tuesday to urge them to regulate the gun trade.
Emmanuel is an involuntary expert in gun violence. He was born in war-torn Sudan, and forced to fight at the age of six or seven with the rebel army in the civil war. Put into battle as a child soldier, he was made to shoot with an AK-47 that was taller than he was. He fought for five years before he and his friends managed... (GunPolicy.org)
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