"When we demobilized, our politics demobilized too," former AUC commanderGermán Senna Pico said in a recent prison interview.
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ON 95% STAND-BY DAYRATE * SAFE CONCORDIA: ON LOCATION AND DAYRATE, ALTHOUGH CLIENT PERSONNEL ARE DEMOBILIZED * SAFE EURUS: DISCONNECTED AND CLIENT PERSONNEL DEMOBILIZED.
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In October, hundreds of previously demobilized soldiers protested in Beijing.
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So I cringe when people say he demobilized his operation.
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The FARC has largely demobilized and become a political party.
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Those teams demobilized once those assessments were complete in late April.
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Demobilized FARC members, too, have been victims of attacks and killings.
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Some 13,000 FARC members, including 6,000 combatants, demobilized under the peace accord.
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The now-demobilized Marxist FARC rebels regularly stopped armed offensives during Christmas.
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Victims and former rebels who demobilized prior to the accord will attend.
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What else can I tell you... So I was demobilized, came to Moscow.
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The M19 demobilized in 1990 and has had success integrating into mainstream politics.
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If opposition to Trump is demobilized and demoralized, these initiatives will be vulnerable.
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By 2017, the FARC had completely demobilized, except for a small dissident group.
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A program meant to downsize the army let demobilized soldiers keep their guns.
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The overwhelming majority will likely remain demobilized, along with the FARC party leadership.
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The rebels had been in camps for demobilized fighters in Uganda following their defeat.
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The final scenes take place at a coastal rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers.
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Its firing mechanism was disabled by United Nations peacekeepers in 1990 when the contra army demobilized.
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There have been protests in recent months by demobilized soldiers complaining of a lack of support.
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Would the labor market absorb millions of demobilized soldiers as military production ground to a halt?
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Another critical challenge for the government will be ensuring the safety of the demobilized FARC guerrillas.
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The rebels had been in camps for demobilized fighters in Uganda following their defeat in 2013.
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Góndola demobilized at the end of 193, along with his wife, a 25-year-old guerrillera.
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Some fighters demobilized during Uribe's tenure, but others founded crime gangs which continue to traffic drugs.
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Demobilized fighters, many of whom have spent some 20 years in rebel ranks, face significant obstacles.
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In 2016, some 13,000 members of the FARC demobilized after a peace agreement with the Colombian government.
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The combustible presence of the demobilized soldiers in the heat of the anticolonial agitation alarmed the British.
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During three trips, she interviewed women in refugee camps and demobilized soldiers from the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Under the terms of the deal, thousands of rebels demobilized and the group is now a political party.
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Senior demobilized FARC sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, believe their absence from the video is telling.
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Duque has discussed the need to "correct" Colombia&aposs divisive 2016 peace accord with now demobilized FARC rebels.
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Demobilized soldiers, right-wing militias and fervent communists all fought for their competing visions of the postwar order.
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"Duque has sent a lousy message to demobilized guerrillas," said leftist Senator Aida Avella of the Patriotic Union party.
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Because there were no apparent release of oil or hazardous substances, the EPA said it demobilized on Feb. 21.
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Some 12,000 FARC members, including 6,000 combatants, demobilized under the accord and the group is now a political party.
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Previous protests have been sparked by pension problems suffered by some demobilized soldiers who fought against Vietnam in 1979.
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Fighters who demobilized would also receive financial aid from the Colombian government to help them reintegrate into civil society.
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Republicans in big households, with three or more people, were particularly prone to being demobilized by pro-equality messaging.
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Yet peace with inadequate economic support risks adding demobilized soldiers and Taliban to the large numbers of unemployed Afghans.
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But the lack of social progress since she demobilized nearly a decade ago has made her doubt these methods.
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Indeed, more than two years after the accord was signed, few government reintegration projects to help demobilized fighters are running.
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Of the 72,20053 combatants demobilized by January 2002, nearly 10 percent were children, according to the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF.
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The Marxist FARC demobilized under a peace deal with the government last year, ending more than five decades of war.
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Once demobilized, soldiers are eligible for a number of benefits, but only if they can obtain their official veteran status.
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Decades of steep increases in defense spending paid for an arsenal of high technology weapons; millions of soldiers were demobilized.
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At least 75 former guerrillas have been killed since 2016, according to the political party founded by the demobilized guerrillas.
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Counting recidivists, guerrillas who never demobilized in 2017 and new recruits, these dissident bands now have 2,000 to 2,500 members.
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"As militants are demobilized, they are susceptible for a newcomer to recruit and make use of their capabilities," he said.
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The soldiers, including some who have been demobilized, say they were each promised 5 million CFA francs ($8,000) and a house.
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When the conflict ends, indigenous people often fear that demobilized guerrillas will return to their areas and violate their land rights.
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The same day saw a group of demobilized children reunited with their families after months, or in some cases years, apart.
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But New York prosecutors allege that he conspired to export 10 tons of cocaine to the U.S. after the group demobilized.
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A chief concern now is that paramilitary forces, like the Urabeños who threatened Solano, will target activists and demobilized FARC guerrillas.
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He demobilized in the 2006 deal that guaranteed former paramilitaries reduced sentences in exchange for information about the atrocities they committed.
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"The president demobilized the widest, deepest and most effective grass-roots organization ever built to support a Democratic president," Ganz said.
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"They haven't ceased cyberattacks, they haven't ceased their 100,000 special forces or in any way demobilized their million-man army," Green added.
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That changed as security improvements took hold and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels demobilized under a 2016 peace accord.
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Like other vets, Mr. Ostaltsev demobilized after a year at the front, ready to shroud his war memories in a haze of drink.
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Some 7,000 FARC fighters demobilized early last year and more than 4,600 of them have already submitted testimony for the JEP to process.
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In addition to running the restaurant, she gives workshops all around the region, including one with women who had demobilized from the FARC.
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FARC demobilized last year following a 2016 peace deal, leaving the areas as flashpoints for fighting among crime gangs and rival rebel groups.
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought the Colombian government for more than 52 years, but demobilized after a 2016 peace deal.
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Carlos Velandia, a former E.L.N. fighter who demobilized in 2004, said the group's participation removed the last stumbling block to ending the rebellion.
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Analysts commonly suggest these names also help the government downplay the group's origins in the paramilitary death-squad federation, which demobilized in 20113.
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Even though paramilitary groups demobilized back in 2006, many members remained armed and formed new crime gangs focused on drug trafficking and illegal mining.
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Some observers also point to the various other armed groups waiting in the wings to occupy the territories left behind by the demobilized FARC.
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Those talks ended in a 2016 peace deal under which the FARC, once much larger than the ELN, demobilized and formed a political party.
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True, most FARC militants, as foreseen by the peace accord, demobilized here and across Colombia, a country the size of France and Spain combined.
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So far during 2016, 252 ELN members have demobilized, 388 have been captured and 46 have been killed in combat, according to the statement.
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But some of the 13,000 demobilized guerrillas, frustrated by a lack of promised vocational training and reintegration programs, have already returned to the jungle.
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"This man, from the time he demobilized, left behind armed groups guarding his territory," said Priscila Zúñiga, the security adviser to Santa Marta's mayor.
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As of mid-April Freeport had "demobilized" around 10 percent of its Indonesian workforce of 32,000 among efforts to cut costs resulting from the dispute.
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But in this case, the outside force voluntarily demobilized: After the stimulus was approved, the labor movement refused to push on the things they wanted.
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At least 139 former FARC rebels have been killed since the peace deal, which demobilized some 13,000 of its members, including more than 6,000 combatants.
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The FARC rebels who demobilized under the accord are struggling to reinsert themselves into civilian life in a nation where many people are hesitant to forgive.
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Backlash is a tactic of power that can be claimed by organized interests, such as health insurers, when the broader public is less engaged or demobilized.
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Demobilized soldiers who protested have included some who fought against Vietnam in 1979 - China's last major foreign military engagement - and complained about problems with their pensions.
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Freeport had "demobilized" just over 10 percent of its workforce of 32,000 by last week, a number expected to grow until the dispute is fully resolved.
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Thousands of young people in both nations are expected to be demobilized and there will be an urgent need to provide them with jobs, she said.
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Only a robust post-conflict security plan will ensure that the state, not criminals, wrest control of the power vacuum left by the demobilized guerrilla force.
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The United Nations recently approved a mission to monitor reintegration, and Colombia's Reincorporation and Normalization Agency helps the newly demobilized fighters ease back into civilian life.
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Tuesday's protesters were part of a group of some 6,800 combatants demobilized following the conflict but who claim they are still owed money for their service.
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Protests by demobilized soldiers are not uncommon, and previously some who had fought against Vietnam in 1979 have demonstrated in complaint against problems over their pensions.
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The paramilitaries were behind most of the 260,000 killings that occurred during the nation's half-century conflict and never fully demobilized under a 2006 peace agreement.
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Projects allowed under the peace deal are meant to be funded by payments of 8 million pesos (about $2,700) to demobilized fighters to help them start businesses.
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The FARC had demobilized, but this band appeared to be a smaller rebel group that kept fighting, or a breakaway faction that never signed the peace deal.
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Four days later he completely changed the criteria on which men were demobilized, giving priority to those who had been wounded and those who had served longest.
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The announcement follows a fire over the weekend, which the military says was started by dissidents from the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.
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Mr. Duque should immediately visit some of the 13 village-size zones where the guerrillas demobilized in 2017, and where a third of them still live today.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Armed gunmen this week killed six former fighters from Colombia's FARC rebels, the now-demobilized group said, reiterating its fears about attacks targeting former guerrillas.
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Three military sources blamed demobilized former rebel fighters - forces caught up in years of instability in Francophone West Africa's most important economy - though no group claimed responsibility.
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Demobilized ex-rebel fighters, who launched a separate protest last week also over bonuses, said they reached an agreement on Wednesday following meetings with Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko.
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Hernandez was one of 10 former FARC commanders who took up positions in congress after the group, now a legal political party, demobilized under a 2016 peace deal.
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One picture in a Reuters photo story shows Mikhail Shakov, 23, a demobilized Russian soldier, swimming towards an ice-floe but sporting a traditional ushanka, or ear-hat.
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While paramilitary groups have demobilized, thousands of former paramilitary fighters morphed into new drug gangs, known as BACRIM, which the government now regards as Colombia's biggest security threat.
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In February, military veterans demonstrated in central Beijing for two days, demanding unpaid retirement benefits in a new wave of protests highlighting the difficulty of managing demobilized troops.
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"Corruption is flourishing and nothing has changed," said Vladimir V. Makarichev, a war veteran who said he was upset with his shoddy treatment after being demobilized in May.
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized under a 2016 peace deal after more than five decades of conflict with the government, becoming a legal political party.
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It must establish a system of transitional justice, a truth commission and investigative and protective units to safeguard the lives of demobilized former combatants and human rights activists.
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The combatants will still have to be demobilized, the transitional justice will need to be carried out, and political institutions will have to support and preserve the peace agreement.
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BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia&aposs demobilized guerrilla movement says its former top commander Rodrigo Londono will run for the presidency of the South American nation in next year&aposs election.
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Roughly 7,000 FARC fighters have demobilized under the accord, which allows the group 10 unelected seats in Congress through 2026 and grants amnesty to the majority of ex-fighters.
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Thousands of FARC fighters have demobilized under the deal and the group is now a political party, but crop substitution is already a thorn in the side of the government.
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Fighters loyal to Makenga were held in camps for demobilized fighters after their 2013 defeat, though Congolese officials said earlier this month that a number had crossed back into Congo.
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After the war ended in 1945, millions of demobilized troops gave away the olive drab uniforms they no longer needed, and heaps more were sold by the Army as surplus.
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In February 2017, Chinese military veterans staged two days of demonstrations in central Beijing, demanding unpaid retirement benefits in a new wave of protests highlighting the difficulty in managing demobilized troops.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police thwarted an assassination attempt against Rodrigo Londono, former commander of the demobilized FARC rebels better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, a senior official said Sunday.
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The Sinaloa cartel is allied with a 300-member group of dissident former members of the FARC guerrillas, who demobilized last year under a peace deal with the government, Martinez said.
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At one government-run center for demobilized fighters in a poor neighborhood in south Bogota, Johanna Diaz is one of 860 state psychologists helping ex-fighters get used to civilian life.
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The EPL demobilized in 1991 under an amnesty law, but the fact that a former left-wing combatant is now helping landless peasants makes their claims very suspicious in a businessman's eyes.
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After being demobilized, in October, 1945, he founded his own production company the following month, in part because the technicians' union, which was overwhelmingly Communist, would not give him a union card.
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One veteran operative who's deeply involved in party-aligned work on corruption issues tells me he thinks congressional leaders have deliberately demobilized the resistance because they're so afraid of the impeachment issue.
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Under the 2016 accord, 212,2000 guerrillas demobilized; two and a half years later, according to official data compiled by Bogotá's Ideas for Peace Foundation, only 22020,2126, or 2132 percent, are unaccounted for.
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It can show how insurgencies can be demobilized and integrated in national security forces and how the U.S. and international community can prevent the further proliferation of extremist groups without waging endless wars.
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The announcement that a group of senior commanders from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, are taking up arms again is a heavy blow to Colombia's already fragile peace process.
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Police were active in the area until 12:30 AM, when they demobilized after seizing a shotgun that may have been used in the attack and arresting a suspect linked to the shooting.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - A mayoral candidate in southwestern Colombia was killed along with five other people in an attack likely perpetrated by dissidents from the demobilized FARC guerrilla group, the government said on Monday.
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And, after kicking the Templarios out, were partly integrated into state law enforcement by way of a new force known as the Rural Police which was, again in theory, demobilized completely in May.
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels largely demobilized under a 2016 peace deal, becoming a legal political party, but several top commanders last year rejected the peace deal and re-armed.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - The former commander of Colombia's demobilized FARC rebels, Rodrigo Londono, has canceled a trip to Mexico to attend the inauguration of new leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador because of health concerns.
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When my grandfather passed away, I was a college sophomore, studying abroad in the Czech Republic -- ironically not far from where grandpa spent his last few months in Europe, waiting to be demobilized home.
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Thousands of paramilitary fighters demobilized a decade ago under a peace deal, but many more joined crime gangs which continue to terrorize some parts of Colombia with killings, displacements, sexual violence and forced recruitment.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebel group handed in more than 8,000 weapons and nearly 1.3 million pieces of ammunition as it demobilized after a peace deal with the government, the United Nations said.
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As a result of peace talks that began in November 2012, more and more FARC fighters have demobilized and returned to civilian life, and are beginning to talk about their experiences in the camps.
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Democratic Republic of Congo stepped up army patrols in its volatile east on Saturday after reports from a Congolese governor that Sultani Makenga had vanished from a camp for demobilized fighters in neighboring Uganda.
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Thousands of fighters from Colombia's largest guerrilla group - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)- have demobilized as part of the deal with the government, and the group has now become a political party.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Two former fighters from Colombia's FARC rebels were killed in Antioquia province after campaigning for a political candidate for the now-demobilized guerrilla group, the FARC said in a statement on Wednesday.
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This week a senator accused him of hiding information that children were killed in a recent bombing raid targeted at a dissident member of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.
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Tensions were stoked afresh last week when former commanders from the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerillas announced they would rearm in a video Colombian authorities say was filmed in Venezuela.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast's second city Bouake shot and wounded three demobilized former rebels on Saturday, a spokesman for the mutineers said, amid a nationwide revolt within the army over bonus payments.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will keep tackling the difficulties facing demobilized soldiers and pays attention to resolving their problems, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, after hundreds protested outside a major military building against job losses.
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He made many mistakes during the campaign: it took Petro, a former political militant with the demobilized M-19 urban guerrilla movement, far too long to distance himself from the spiraling crisis in nearby Venezuela.
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This has led to a major setback for peace: Experts estimate that as many as 3,000 militants have taken up arms again — a figure equal to more than 40 percent of those who initially demobilized.
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On the other hand, M19, a left-wing rebel group that demobilized in the early 1990s, had a more liberal attitude towards its LGBT+ members, said Theresia Thylin, a researcher who has studied Colombia's armed groups.
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The ELN and the Gulf Clan, founded by former right-wing paramilitaries, are fighting over drug production previously controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who demobilized last year after a peace deal.
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On one side of the kitchen—cooking up delights like 24-hour piglet or pineapple chicha soup—might be a former guerilla fighter from the left-wing FARC rebel group; on the other, a demobilized soldier.
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The group, which calls itself the Oliver Sinisterra Front, is one of several gangs of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas, who largely demobilized last year under a peace deal with the government.
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While Uribe and Duque may rail against it, the Colombian Congress has approved the plan, more than 7,000 guerrillas have demobilized, and the processes of reintegration are in full swing and will be difficult to unwind.
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Barrera bought raw cocaine paste from the leftist rebel group FARC and processed it in laboratories in areas controlled by a now-demobilized paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, authorities said.
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About a week after the mutiny ended, three demobilized ex-rebel fighters were killed in Ivory Coast's second-biggest city of Bouake, as they clashed with police attempting to end a separate protest over bonus payments.
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Prosecutors said Barrera bought raw cocaine paste from the leftist rebel group FARC and processed it in laboratories in areas controlled by a now-demobilized paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC.
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Workers now deemed "resigned" are in addition to an estimated 2,000-3,000 workers Freeport placed on furlough as of mid-April, when approximately 10 percent of its 32,000 member workforce was "demobilized" under a cost-cutting effort.
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Areas previously controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, who demobilized last year following a peace deal, have become flashpoints for fighting among crime gangs and smaller rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN).
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The United Nations verification mission in the country, which received thousands of weapons from the FARC when they demobilized, said in a statement on Wednesday that the free exercise of political rights must be guaranteed during campaigning.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebel leaders will likely be protected by their own demobilized security units in coordination with the armed forces once peace is signed and the Marxist group enters politics, the defense minister said on Wednesday.
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The officer, who asked not to be named as he was not authorized to speak, said one of the demobilized combatants had a grenade which exploded accidentally, killing three people at the scene and wounding more than 20.
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"All work at the Angore wellpads and pipeline construction has been suspended and all impacted personnel are in the process of being demobilized or reassigned," an ExxonMobil PNG spokeswoman said by email, adding it was halted late in June.
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Pakistani TV anchor and columnist Nazim Zehra, who attended a background briefing by Prime Minister Imran Khan and finance minister Asad Umar on Monday, said the government was determined that militants should put down their weapons and be demobilized.
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The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal prosecutes leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, who demobilized under a 2016 peace deal, as well as military officials, for crimes committed during a five-decade internal conflict.
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ABIDJAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Congo has stepped up border patrols after the former military chief of a once powerful rebel group vanished from a camp for demobilized fighters in neighbouring Uganda, and unidentified soldiers were spotted in the area.
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Seventy-three years ago, The Times reported that the United States Army demobilized its seven millionth soldier after the end of World War II. When I unearthed this clip several months ago, I thought I was misreading the number.
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"As FARC has demobilized, large areas are opening up once again, and you're seeing this rush of people grabbing land for different reasons, like planting cocoa or cattle ranching," said Mikaela Weisse, a research analyst with Global Forest Watch.
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The three military sources in the northern city of Bouake, which sent reinforcements to Korhogo, said the attackers were demobilized fighters from former rebels who controlled the north of the country during Ivory Coast's crisis from 2002 to 2011.
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The soldiers, including some who have been demobilized, say they were each promised 5 million CFA francs ($8,000) and a house for their role in the rebellion that brought Ouattara to power after his predecessor refused to acknowledge his election win.
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Duque's move will probably spook the roughly 7,000 demobilized rebels and prompt some to join dissident FARC fighters - who refused to adhere to the peace accords - as implementation of the agreement may get slowed by efforts to toughen tribunal rules.
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Ecuador's decision came after two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver were killed by a group of former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, the majority of whom demobilized under a 2016 peace deal negotiated in Havana.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congo has stepped up army patrols in its volatile east after the former military chief of a once-powerful rebel group vanished from a camp for demobilized fighters in neighboring Uganda and gunfire erupted outside an important border town.
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The Colombian army said in a statement one person was missing after the incident, which it said was carried out by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, which demobilized last year under a peace deal.
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Few of the cases have been solved by Colombia's government, yet a pattern has emerged: Almost all of the murders have taken place in regions that FARC guerrillas abandoned last year when they demobilized as part of the peace deal.
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CHOCÓ, Colombia — Iván Márquez, a guerrilla commander instrumental in negotiating a historic peace agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government, announced Thursday that he would be returning to arms alongside two other high-ranking, demobilized commanders.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - The number of people killed or wounded by landmines in Colombia more than tripled in 2018 to 180, a landmine monitoring group said on Wednesday, as militants occupying territory abandoned by demobilized leftist rebels have expanded their use of the weaponry.
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The casualties, compared with 56 in 2017, were mostly in jungle and mountain areas previously controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who demobilized last year under a peace deal with the government to end five decades of war.
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Just under 3,000 of these militia members demobilized in 2017, apparently less than half of the total that existed, according to FARC sources, who claim these urban networks continue to operate in the shadows today and could support Marquez's call to arms.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Three demobilized ex-rebel fighters were killed in Ivory Coast's second-biggest city of Bouake on Tuesday, as they clashed with police attempting to end their protest over bonus payments, a policeman and a spokesman for the former fighters said.
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Congo stepped up patrols in its volatile east after the former military chief of a rebel group was reported missing from a camp for demobilized fighters in neighboring Uganda, although the Ugandan military said on Sunday that Sultani Makenga was in the country's capital Kampala.
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According to sociolinguists, foul language was a manifestation of macho behaviour in all-male verbal contexts such as the armed forces, and the spread of the word "motherfucker" from the 1950s was due to swear words being brought back into society by demobilized civilians.
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Kiev, the picturesque Ukrainian capital of churches and cobblestoned lanes built on a bluff over the Dnieper River, is coping with a flood of returning war veterans, about 12,000 of the estimated 50,000 soldiers demobilized as the 18-month war in the east wound down in September.
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At a press briefing in Florida on January 23, Faller pointed to Venezuela as a "safe haven" and "base of opportunity" for dissident members of the demobilized FARC rebel group, as well as guerrillas from the ELN rebel group and "terrorists groups" involved in narco-trafficking.
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Protesters have wide-ranging demands - that the government to do more to stop the murder of human rights activists, more support for former leftist rebels who demobilized under a peace deal and the dissolutiion of the ESMAD riot police, whom marchers have accused of excessive force.
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Rodrigo Londono, who has lead the FARC's political party since the group demobilized in 2017 following a peace deal, made the comments as the right-wing government of President Ivan Duque seeks to modify the remit of the peace tribunal charged with trying ex-combatants for war crimes.
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The day after the attack on Carmen Santos' Uber, Hugo Ospina, president of Colombia's taxi driver association, took to radio station LA FM to warn that "in our guild, we have groups of people who are demobilized from illegal armed groups [who] are arming themselves to assassinate Uber drivers".
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While the Santos government has been criticized for the slow pace with which it is implementing elements of the peace accord, the hardline measures mentioned during the Senate hearing, if adopted, could exacerbate issues like public resistance to Colombia's crop-eradication efforts as well as recidivism among demobilized FARC rebels.
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"Once the selection process takes place for the unified army the remaining ones who are not selected will be demobilized through the DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) process and so the incentives of being able to access a DDR package may be an incentive to swell the numbers," she said in the interview.
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"If a child leaves a family [to go to the army] for economic reasons, then after a month of being demobilized he goes back to his family and then back to the army, it's the government's responsibility to fix the economy," said Ndjike-Kaiko Guillaume, director of communication and information for the army in North Kivu.
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