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Papua New Guinea Gun Culture Threatens Security in Run-up to Elections
6 April 2011
IRIN (UN News)
PORT MORESBY - The proliferation and use of illegal guns in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is threatening security ahead of parliamentary elections slated for June 2012, and causing misery and trauma to gun crime victims, says the government.
The police, the PNG Electoral Commission and the Inter Department Election Committee (IDEC), a government body overseeing election preparations, are aware of the risks in the run-up to and during the elections.
"We are very much aware of... (GunPolicy.org)