General Dostum's militia is being disarmed and demobilized, but he has been allowed to keep 200 bodyguards.
While Wilson and Allen were being disarmed, Geary had jumped up from his seat on the platform, pulling a revolver as he did so.
An executive of a company that makes two of the products acknowledged that sensors can sometimes react as if they are being disarmed if a child moves around too much or shoulder straps are not secured.
Since July 2003, it said, attacks on allied forces have declined, the power of regional warlords has diminished, militias are being disarmed, a moderate Islamic Constitution is in place, and the elections on Oct. 9 were conducted with relatively little violence and few irregularities.
Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered - one does not usually lead to the other - but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the 20th century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.
It has raised a few eyebrows that the vigilantes are not being disarmed, simply required to register.
By 1943, most of the rank and file of the SDS was sympathetic to Mihailović's Chetniks, and SDS units were regularly being "disarmed" by them, sometimes even staging mock battles to disguise transfers of much needed weapons and ammunition to Mihailović's forces.
ETA is being urged to disarm unilaterally by separatist parties that have emerged successfully from its shadow since the ceasefire.
Many northern leaders say that they have been shortchanged in the distribution of development aid and worry about the militarization of the south as they are being asked to disarm.
