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More than a thousand FARC fighters refused to demobilize under the accord with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and continued drug trafficking across the nation.

SDDRC Commissioner further said the demobilization exercises will continue until 2020 and projects to demobilize and integrate over 40,000 combatants.

"It is a victory for us, human rights groups, that called time and time again to demobilize children," said Gedi.

During the reporting period, the transitional government, in coordination with the UN Mission to the Congo (MONUC), reached integration agreements with Ituri District militias, renegade General Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, and local defense groups in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Katanga that included provisions for the demobilization of child soldiers; some of these groups failed to fulfill their signed commitments and continued recruiting children, but FARDC lacks the capacity to forcibly demobilize or repatriate them.

John Sanderson of Australia to implement the Paris accords, should not be hailed as a major success story as UNTAC failed to disarm or demobilize the country's Khmer Rouge forces.

In July 2003, the AUC promised to demobilize by the end of 2005.

After months of talks, the AUC agreed last July to demobilize its estimated 15,000 troops by the end of 2005 (see NotiSur, 2003-12-19).

Under a pact signed with the government last July, the Self-Defense Forces of Colombia--the umbrella organization for most paramilitary groups--agreed to demobilize its fighters by the end of 2005.