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Congo Buyback Collects 3,000 Guns, Mainly from Women: Many Stolen?
15 December 2008
IRIN (UN News)
KINSHASA — Hundreds of people in Kinshasa have handed over illegal weapons for cash and cloth in a no-questions-asked campaign to reduce crime in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
AK-47 automatic rifles, Uzi sub-machine guns and rocket launchers were among the 3,000 or so weapons collected over the past three weeks by the Ecumenical Programme for Peace, Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation (PAREC), an NGO.
Those in working order were handed over to the police,... (GunPolicy.org)