81.  Some of this results from peace deals the junta has struck in recent years with armed ethnic groups in the northeast of the country.

82.  The armed Kovoso groups, we will require them to demilitarize.

83.  The armed Basque group ETA has reportedly killed five people since ending a cease-fire last December.

84.  The Arhuacos of the Sierra Nevada have avoided the fate of many Indian groups, but they are increasingly feeling the pressures from armed groups, notably the rebels.

85.  The armed group has no name.

86.  The authorities also suspect that the unidentified armed group lobbed a grenade at a police truck the next day, wounding three people.

87.  The emergence of this militant armed group, now numbering several thousand fighters, has dimmed hopes that even a compromise agreement with Belgrade could be successfully implemented.

88.  The handovers appear to be designed to enable members of the Israeli-backed militia to continue functioning as locally based armed groups after the Israeli withdrawal.

89.  The Israeli army has targeted leaders of armed groups for assassination in the past, and has paid for it in reprisal attacks and international condemnation.

90.  The issue is also largely symbolic, as most parties in Northern Ireland began as armed groups.