Paramilitary fighter walks next to weapons handed over to peace negotiators in Colombia.
A far-right paramilitary fighter walks next to weapons handed in by the Calima Block of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, in the western province of del Valle, December 18, 2004. Some 550 far-right Colombian paramilitary fighters turned in their arms on Saturday, the fifth disbandment in less than a month under the Andean country's peace initiative. More than 3,000 paramilitary combatants have laid down their arms since the middle of last year when the government's paramilitary pacification program began. The paramilitaries have killed thousands of people in an illegal campaign against Colombia's Marxist rebels. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz EM/GN