Troops guard arms depot

IRIN

DAR ES SALAAM

Liberian troops have joined West African peacekeepers guarding an arms and munitions depot holding materiel retrieved when ECOMOG troops disarmed the nation's six warring factions, Star radio said. President Charles Taylor said he ordered in his troops after receiving reports of attempts to seize the arms at the former ECOMOG base on Bushrod Island in Monrovia's Free Zone. Under the Liberian peace accord, ECOWAS is supposed to decide on what to do with the arms and ammunition. On taking office in July 1997, Taylor had demanded that the weapons be handed over to his government.

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