Violence on the rise in Mos Eisley

Date: 010909
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Mos Eisley

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Mos Eisley is known as a violent, almost lawless town, despite - some would even say also because - the efforts by the Mos Eisley Police Department and the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps. Lately however the violent incidents seem to be getting worse.

Last week an armored man attacked a twi'lek in Chalmun's in Mos Eisley, beating her up and - according to some reports - cutting off her right lekku and taking it as a trophy. While the identity of the man is not known at this point unconfirmed rumors claim he was also involved in last week's dispute between the Trandoshan Brotherhood and the Twin Suns slaver Kayla in the Lucky Despot. Also unknown is whether this brutal act was part of the ongoing struggle between slavers, retaliation for a prior attack, or simply the act of a bloodthirsty madman.

But such incidents are just part of the picture. Yesterday Chalmun's, one of the busiest cantina in the sector, was turned in a battlefield more than once when armored and heavily armed sentients of all species clashed violently in what witnesses described as a mixture between a gang war and a civil war - apparently, both rebel and imperial forces mixed it up with thugs and mercenaries, and criminals of all sorts. Fortunately collateral damage seemed to have bene lighter than what was expected.

In addition to this reports of various sentients, mostly twi'leks, being attacked and often kidnapped for various slaver organisations are slowly becoming routine news.