Overt U.S. pressure may solidify this tactic, according to a non-governmental contact who follows disarmament issues.
"These guys and gals actually believe that dictatorship will follow disarmament, with tanks in the streets of Topeka".
Following the disarmament of various groups including the IRA and other political agreements, the peace process was considered complete in 2007.
For Iraq, by contrast, the administration was continuing to threaten to use force as a way of bludgeoning President Hussein to accept inspections of its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, followed by disarmament.
"According to the Supreme Leader's religious decree, no government in Iran has the right to produce or use nuclear weapons and the government must actively follow international disarmament policy," the bill read, referring to Iran's top authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Following the protests, Gedi said the disarmament would be postponed indefinitely.
Following guidelines established by the United Nations, combatants voluntarily give up their weapons and demobilize at one of the 10 disarmament camps in the country.
Following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan, signed in 2005, thousands of ex-combatants on both sides were not absorbed by the disarmament, demobilization and re-integration arrangements that followed (2011).
Most Tajiks, though weary of conflict and instability, are well aware that no disarmament followed the end of the civil war.
The recently initiated negotiations involving Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the P.K.K., and Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's intelligence services, are to address some of the main demands of the Kurds in return for a cease-fire in the P.K.K.'s long guerrilla war against the Turkish authorities, followed by the disarmament of the P.K.K. and eventually its repudiation of armed violence.
