And in three of the cities less than 3% of gang homicides took place during a crime.That the great majority of gang homicides involve a firearm and took place in public suggests that inter-gang conflict and retaliation (perhaps territory disputes, personal beefs or just defending reputations) as the main causes of killings.
The cause of these killings and whether they were masterminded by Mr. Milosevic is still unclear.
The Department of Health reckons that post-natal depression is the biggest cause of such killings and has focused on tackling it.
Mr. Jalali said Thursday that he had made no final determination of the cause of the killings, but he discounted the idea that it was terrorism.
The killings of two Jat men and one Muslim man on Aug. 27 inflamed tensions to the point of violence, but the cause of the killings is being investigated.
Noting that domestic violence was much higher in cities than in small towns or villages, Ms. Sahin pointed to the rapid modernization of the country and the ensuing "transition from rural to urban life, from traditional to modern family life" as a primary cause of the killings.
He states dolphins and porpoises feed on different types of fish, thus food competition is an unlikely cause of the killings.
A primary cause of the killings, according to On Their Watch as well as earlier reports by human rights groups and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, was relentless pressure from the top for combat killings, with little or no scrutiny of how they were achieved.
"I think we failed the Libyan people on realising how difficult it would be to deal with the fallout from the revolution that has caused thousands of killings, injuries, missing people, rape cases.
The judge rejected the prosecution's claim that Heiss was motivated by money when he killed his mother, saying: "In my view the cause of the killing that night was anger, not greed".
