Word: disarms
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...plans to have peacekeepers begin patrolling Kabul on Dec. 22, when Karzai's temporary government takes over; then they will fan out to other Afghan cities. But in Bonn, the negotiators were in such haste to secure an agreement that they never spelled out who would be empowered to disarm the Afghan combatants. "We need peace and security," Karzai says. "That's our first priority." Everyone, friend and foe alike, will be watching now to see if he is the man who can deliver them...
...brief visit to Poso by Chief Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Dec. 5 and a pledge of several thousand more troops did little to reassure Christians. "What is really needed is for the security forces to go in and disarm these outsiders," says S. Pelima, a civil servant and Protestant preacher based in the regional capital of Palu who served on a reconciliation team of community and religious leaders set up by the Governor last year. Since the May 2000 eruption, he says, the team had managed to contain the violence between the two communities to a few killings...
DEFUSERS Procedures that use laser or surgical techniques to safely disarm homemade bombs and weapons of mass destruction...
...Trimble back in office. However, the DUP and even some members of Trimble’s own party (the Ulster Unionists Party or UUP) are objecting to pushing forward with the peace process because they think the IRA hasn’t put in enough effort to disarm. Unfortunately, the decommissioning (or disarming) process is all very secretive, and it is overseen by a neutral decommissioning body, led by General John de Chastelain of Canada. The unionists are hesitant because they want to make sure that the IRA gets rid of a substantial amount of weapons soon...
...broken promises in the past and could do so in future. If Trimble is restored to power, he needs to make sure that General de Chastelain reports regularly on what progress is being made. At the same time, paramilitaries on the unionist side must be forced to disarm. The Ulster Freedom Fighters (who are connected with Paisely’s UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force are smaller than the IRA but equally dangerous to the peace process. They, along with small nationalist paramilitary groups such as the Real IRA, must be forced to disband and disarm...