Colombia militias handing over guns
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CAMPO DOS, Colombia -- As Javier Alfonso Vela watched 1,425 paramilitary soldiers turn in their weapons under a blazing sun Friday in Colombia's largest demobilization of combatants, the missionary wondered aloud whether disarming right-wing militias would be a first step to ending his country's 40-year-old conflict, or a dangerous opening for the return of leftist guerrillas to this provincial outpost ...
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Falluja and Ramadi, and much of Anbar Province, are now controlled by militias, with U.S. troops confined to outside bases.
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A radical Shiite militia agreed on Saturday to hand in weapons and suspend attacks against US and Iraqi forces, as the government has tried to use carrots and sticks to curb a mounting insurgency throughout the country.
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BAGHDAD , Oct 11 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia began slowly turning in weapons under a deal with the Iraqi government aimed at bringing a halt to months of deadly fighting in a Baghdad slum.
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TIBU, Colombia -- The commander of Colombia's paramilitary forces wept and apologized yesterday for his role in a war against Marxist rebels as 1,400 fighters surrendered their weapons in the largest demobilization of an outlawed armed faction in the country's history.
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Weapons were stolen from a Samarra police station before it was blown up and the city&#39;s top cop quit. BAGHDAD -- Guerrillas carried out a series of raids in the city of Samarra yesterday, stealing weapons
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that a war is going on in Mexico.
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Followers of Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric, began handing their weapons into police stations in the Iraqi capital yesterday and US forces suspended operations against their strongholds in Sadr City.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized a police station  and part of a southern Peruvian town, to demand the resignation  of President Alejandro Toledo, said it would hand over its  weapons on Monday.
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Some 450 far-right Colombian paramilitary fighters turned in their weapons on Thursday as part of a government-negotiated demobilization to eliminate the outlawed group by the end of next year.
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More than 900 right-wing paramilitary fighters surrendered their weapons Tuesday, but a leading international rights group criticized the demobilization process and said the Colombian government is letting war criminals off the hook.
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Followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district to hand in weapons today under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A senior aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (mook-TAH&#39;-duh ehl SAH&#39;-dur) says militiamen loyal to him will begin handing over weapons to Iraqi police next week.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest right-wing  paramilitary group said on Thursday it would disband 3,000 of  its fighters before the end of the year, in what the group  called a good faith gesture as it pursues peace talks with the  government.
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Shia militias in Baghdad should start handing in weapons on Monday, under a deal with the Iraqi government.
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The two main militia groups in Congo's most troubled province agreed to disarm in exchange for amnesty and positions in the army, a breakthrough that could end fighting in the northeast and ensure a peaceful presidential vote Sunday.
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Shi&#39;ite militia fighters backing the radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, are handing in weapons at the start of a deal with the Iraqi interim Government to end months of violence.