Colombia: Military plans on destroying 21,000 weapons seized from criminal groups

Posted on August 22, 2012 • Filed under: Colombia, Crime, Police/Military Activity

Elespectador.com reported that a total of 21,107 weapons of all kinds and have been seized from the FARC, ELN, common criminals, drug gangs and paramilitaries, will be melted in furnaces of a steel, military said. The conference, which begins on Wednesday 22 and will end on Friday, August 24, will be chaired by the head of the Department of Trade and Arms Control, Ammunition and Explosives of the General Command of the Armed Forces (DCCA), Colonel Juan Carlos Rodríguez Valencia . Read Article

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