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Former soldiers discharged

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    In a related development, the government's reintegration officer for the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration told IRIN on Wednesday that the government would discharge 509 former soldiers on Thursday and Friday.

    The soldiers, who underwent a three-week `pre-discharge orientation' at the Mammy Yoko Hotel in central Freetown, had served under the military junta which ruled in alliance with the RUF after a coup in May 1997.

    They were placed in reorientation camps after ECOMOG ousted the junta and restored President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to power in February 1998.

    A first group of 254 ex-combatants were discharged on 24 June.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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