U.N. offers prizes in weapons drive
From Times Wire Reports
The United Nations said it was offering Bosnians a chance to win coveted consumer goods such as scooters and refrigerators in a lottery if they turned in weapons left over from the country’s 1992-95 war.
Prizes are the most effective way to collect weapons after conflicts, the U.N. Development Program said. About 16% of people in the Balkan country are believed to own weapons.
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