Before Quote by Ger Duany

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically…

— Kola Boof

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of…

— Omar al-Bashir

“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made its debut…

— C.J. Chivers

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

— Salva Kiir Mayardit

“At the gun shop, AK-47s were stacked six high on the shelves … The day after the West invaded Afghanistan, a ‘piety discount’ was…

— Nadeem Aslam

During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the…

— Rebecca Hamilton

“the Russian assault rifle would see its first combat use—both by conventional forces and by insurgents. The United States military, all the while, would…

— C.J. Chivers

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

— Kate Adie

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the…

— Emmanuel Jal