Battalion disarms
COMALAPA, EL SALVADOR (AFP) - The army at the weekend finished demobilising one of five US-trained counterinsurgency battalions accused of human rights abuses. The disarming of the Bracamonte Battalion was conducted in compliance with a UN-brokered peace accord signed in January with leftist rebels.
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