Juba — In late 2007, before they awoke to daybreak, residents of Juba found their houses surrounded, ransacked and fortified. The ransack was done by security forces. The mostly soldiers who performed the act came out of tin and wattle huts mostly with sack-loads of rusty guns, including anti-aircraft launchers.
There were the signs of a nation still at war. Arms were spread everywhere. Everybody, some people here often said, had a gun.
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