Guns: the Will, and the Way
There is a will. But is there a way?
Cambodia National Assembly has passed a gun control law to ban the distribution, trading or hiring of any of the tens of thousands of weapons and rounds of ammunition left behind by decades of civil war, dating back to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s.
The government demonstrates it is serious about increasing its security legislation to bring the country into line with international anti-terrorist conventions.
However as the perhaps overly candid head of a European Union-backed weapons control and destruction programme in Phnom Penh concedes:
Cambodia National Assembly has passed a gun control law to ban the distribution, trading or hiring of any of the tens of thousands of weapons and rounds of ammunition left behind by decades of civil war, dating back to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s.
The government demonstrates it is serious about increasing its security legislation to bring the country into line with international anti-terrorist conventions.
However as the perhaps overly candid head of a European Union-backed weapons control and destruction programme in Phnom Penh concedes:
There are always questions about implementationLink
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