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Proliferation of Guns, Local Customs Fuel Violence in Ethiopia - IANSA
21 May 2009
Ethiopian Review / IRIN (UN News)
TURMI — Zuga Sherdo grew up in a community that was constantly fighting its neighbours in southern Ethiopia.
As a young Malee man, he lived through conflict between his community and the Bena, Tsemai and Ari, in which his uncle's family killed his brother and his father's clan killed his mother's relatives.
"My community was always in bloody [conflict] with neighbours," he said. "I was born from a Bena mother, but was fighting members of that community."
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