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Colombia Disarms 1,371 Terrorists In First Half Year

Bogota - The Colombian government said on Friday that as many as 1,371 anti-government guerrillas were disarmed in the first half of this year.

According to a report released by the government, 1,083 rebels who laid down their weapons were from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), 280 from the National Liberation Army (ELN), and 8 from other paramilitary groups.

Colombian guerrilla groups, led by the FARC and the ELN, have been fighting government troops for more than 40 years.

Some 1,180 of the disarmed rebels surrendered themselves to the Colombian Army and National Police, 135 to the National Security Department, and others to domestic institutions, said the report.

The Colombian government promised that the former guerilla fighters would be treated properly under the Humanitarian Attention Program to Demobilization.

Since President Alvaro Uribe, who put the demobilization of guerrillas in Colombia as his priority, took office on Aug. 7, 2002, 19,288 Colombian rebels had been disarmed so far.

http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/july/04/la01.htm

By tasco66 on Jul 4, 2009, 09:17 in Politics & the war.

Loggi says on Jul 4, 2009, 09:32:

19,288 Colombian rebels had been disarmed so far.
That is some achievement, well done Uribe

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Dolfi says on Jul 4, 2009, 09:45:

Does this include the 1500 falsos positivos?

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tasco66 says on Jul 4, 2009, 09:47:

Of course for Dolfi that's 19,288 too many...

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dwmte7 says on Jul 5, 2009, 15:00:

with the 18 billion in cash and hdwe they got from us last year, that works out to about 6,500,000 per man. not bad. (round figures) it's like the prisoner problem here in the u.s. we spend a minimum of 35,000 a year for an easy prisoner to about 150,000 plus or minus for the problem children. when do we figure it out. for that kind of money, we could be turning every last one of these pandejeros into rocket scientists and brain surgeons and giving them a mansion on graduation. you figure

patriarch

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makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 5, 2009, 15:08:

a step closer to peace.

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dwmte7 says on Jul 5, 2009, 16:13:

let's bloody hope so. those bad guys are damn expensive in so many ways.

patriarch

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