ILLEGAL SMALL ARMS
AND
CHILD PARTICIPATION IN BANGLADESH

A Background Report Sharif A. Kafi

It was noticed by a group of staff of BDPC during late 1997 and early 1998 that the number of violence involving illegal arms was on the rise. A simple survey was done based on news reports published in national newspapers. It came out of the survey that between 30 and 40 armed violence take place in the country every day. Nature of violence that involves illegal arms include killing, political conflict, drug and arms trading, trafficking in women and children, smuggling, prostitution, abduction, rape, extortion, election rigging, mugging, vehicle hi-jacking, car lifting, highway robbery, robbery, shrimp cultivation, illegal occupying of land by evicting the legal occupant, fundamentalist aggression, intra and inter group conflict, auctioning of smuggled goods, auctioning of woodlots, tender and contracting, street violence, campus violence, attack on journalists, slum eviction and slum settlement, and illegal killing and trading of wild animals (Tiger, Deer, etc.).

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