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Former Vieira loyalists returned to prison

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    Former military officers loyal to the ousted president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, have been returned to prison on the insistence of military chiefs who toppled him in May 1999, AFP reported. The decision to return the 31 officers to prison was taken in a meeting between President Kumba Yala and the military brass, AFP said, quoting authorised sources. They are accused of having smuggled arms to Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casamance, which is fighting for an independent state in southern Senegal, it added.

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