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South Sudan Begins Mass Campaign to Confiscate Civilian Guns
20 June 2008
Reuters
JUBA, Sudan — South Sudanese authorities have begun to collect thousands of guns amassed by civilians during decades of war to try to end tribal conflicts which claim dozens of lives each year, officials said.
Since a 2005 north-south peace deal ended Africa's longest civil war, efforts by the semi-autonomous southern government to disarm civilians have claimed an estimated 1,500 lives because they took weapons from some tribes leaving them vulnerable to neighbouring... (GunPolicy.org)