Arms probe links Czech guns to Kruger rhino slaughter

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The Rhino Rifle Syndicate helped elevate small-scale rhino poaching to an industrial level.

An investigation by the Conflict Awareness Project, an international organisation that investigates arms traffickers, has traced how the syndicate helped elevate small-scale rhino poaching to an industrial level.

This is revealed in a shocking report of a four-year investigation headed by Conflict Awareness Project director Kathi Lynn Austin. The report implicates the Mozambican ministry of the interior, and other state authorities there and in SA in rhino poaching.

 

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