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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. April 2005 / Time Line April 14, 2005
Version 3.013. April 2005, 15. April 2005
04/14/2005
Rwanda: Government destroys 6,000 small arms
KIGALI, 14 April (IRIN) - Rwanda has, for the first time, destroyed
6,000 small arms as part of a regional initiative to check the flow
of illicit guns that have fuelled conflict in Africa's Great Lakes
region, an official told IRIN on Thursday.
"We set them on fire," Maj Rwakabi Kakira, the coordinator of the
Rwandan effort, said.
The guns - ranging from 5.2 mm to 82 mm in calibre and ammunition -
were taken from former combatants and armed robbers. Others were
part of an obsolete stock left behind by the country's pre-1994
genocide administration...
04/14/2005
DRC: Militia group dismantled as 416 fighters surrender
guns
BUNIA, 14 April (IRIN) - The remaining 416 militiamen of the Forces
armees du peuple congolais (FAPC) surrendered their guns to UN
troops on Wednesday, effectively dismantling the movement and
boosting efforts to pacify the troubled Ituri District in
northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
"The FAPC no longer exists. This movement is now history," Kwaje
Duku, a Congolese army colonel heading the government-run National
Disarmament Commission in Ituri, said...
04/14/2005
A New Call to Arms: Military Health Care
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By TIM WEINER
The battle over the Pentagon's billions has traditionally been
fought between two forces - those who want more new planes and
ships and tanks, and those who want more money for troops. Now
there is a third: military health care.
The cost of the main military health care plan, Tricare, has
doubled since 2001 and will soon reach $50 billion a year, more
than a tenth of the Pentagon's budget. At least 75 percent of the
benefits will go to veterans and retirees.
Over the next decade, a new plan for military retirees, Tricare for
Life, will cost at least $100 billion, according to confidential
budget documents, rivaling the costs of the biggest weapons systems
the Pentagon is building. The surge in military spending since the
9/11 attacks is slowing, and Pentagon officials say they may be
forced to choose between the costs of new weapons and old soldiers.
The Pentagon, said William Winkenwerder Jr., the assistant
secretary of defense for health affairs, faces "a growing, serious,
long-term problem."
04/14/2005
UK: Big rise in deserters 'fuelled by Iraq war'
The number of soldiers to desert the army or go absent without
leave has more than doubled over the past year, the Ministry of
Defence has revealed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1458283,00.html
04/14/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Raytheon Co., Missile Systems Div., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded
a $6,100,000 firm fixed price contract for non-recurring
engineering services associated with establishment of a production
line for High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Command Launch
Computers for the F/A-18E/F. Work will be performed in Tucson,
Ariz., and is expected to be completed in March 2007. Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This
contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Warfare
Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting
activity (N00421-05-C-0048).
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