Charities launch campaign against arms trade

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LONDON (Reuters) - Uch Hy was asleep when a fellow taxi-driver threw a grenade through his window to settle a business dispute.

The $5 weapon from a street market in Cambodia killed his wife and maimed his daughter.

Hy's case was one of many included in a report published on Thursday by Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA, the International Action Network on Small Arms, to promote a new campaign to control the international arms trade.

The report said the trade was spiralling out of control, with one person killed every minute by armed violence.

If the trend continues, it said, by 2020 more people would die from war and violence than from diseases like malaria.

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