How many of the remaining children have been killed is unknown. People in Kitgum also suffer from raids from the neighbouring Karimojong nomads. 40,757 people were displaced by raids in April and May 2000 just in the counties of Agago and Labwor. 82,645 people who have fled such violence live in 8 camps for displaced people in Kitgum. Sudan supplying the Lord's Resistance Army, past looting of Ugandan army weapons, the Ugandan government distributing arms to civilian 'vigilantes', and private trading across the Sudan and Kenyan borders and within Uganda.
Most guns come immediately from Sudan.
But none of these guns are made in Uganda, and virtually none of them in Africa. Arms get to Uganda and its neighbours through a number of dubious channels. Once in Sudan, there are absolutely no controls to prevent them from flowing into Uganda or fuelling Sudan's own civil war. The British Government has agreed that the activities of such arms brokers should be regulated for the first time in a long-awaited new law on Strategic Exports Controls. British citizens, like those who fly arms to this region of Africa, would need licences from the UK Department of Trade and Industry for each deal.