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The French General in charge of the peacekeeping troops n the Congo seems determined to make a real effort.
A French-led force sent to protect civilians in the Congolese town of Bunia has set a 72-hour deadline for
gunmen to leave the town where ethnic bloodletting killed hundreds last month.
The force also urged the government in Kinshasa to withdraw newly-arrived armed police reinforcements, saying they violated a peace deal.
The commander of the force, General Jean Paul Thonier gave the deadline on Saturday at talks with Thomas Lubanga, the head of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia group, which seized control from rival militiamen in May.
"The General has stipulated that there will be no weapons after 72 hours," said the spokesman for the international force, Colonel Gerard Dubois. "Weapons that remain will be confiscated," he told reporters in Bunia.
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