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Kamajors returning home

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    Sierra Leone's Kamajor militiamen have started returning to their farms and villages following the peace agreement signed on 7 July by the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), according to various sources.

    Keith Martin, a Freetown-based adviser on demobilisation issues for the British Department for International Development, told IRIN he was "aware that the Civil Defence Force (CDF) were returning spontaneously to their villages".

    The CDF comprises militia groups such as the Kamajors, which supported the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah against the RUF.

    [See Item: irin-english-1312 titled 'Kamajors returning to their home areas']

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