Protestant outlaws in Northern Ireland embrace disarmament

Sunday, June 28, 2009

LONDON -- Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and pledged that their decades of slaughtering Catholic civilians were over for good.

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