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Human Rights Atrocities:
The Consequences of United Nations
Gun Confiscation in East Africa
IB-2006-F • June 2006
By David B....
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Issue Backgrounder
13952 Denver West Parkway • Suite 400• Golden, Colorado 80401
www.
IndependenceInstitute.
org • 303-279-6536
Human Rights Atrocities:
The Consequences of United Nations
Gun Confiscation in East Africa
IB-2006-F • June 2006
By David B.
Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne D.
Eisen
On June 26, the United Nations convened a major
conference on gun control.
Before demanding further control, the delegates ought to insist that the
United Nations halt the use of torture, arson, and
murder in the carrying-out of existing U.
N.
gun control programs.
With United Nations support, the governments of
Kenya and Uganda are attempting to confiscate all
arms from the pastoral tribes of the Kenya-Uganda
borderlands.
The “forcible disarmament” campaign
has displaced tens and tens of thousands of people,
United Nations gun
control is the cause
of a massive humanitarian crisis in East
Africa.
turning them into starving refugees.
The United Nations and some
NGOs relentlessly promote th
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