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Article: Over 128 Chechen Rebels Surrender Sunday
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 30, 2000
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The Russian ORT public television channel reported that 128
militants surrendered to pro- government militias Sunday in
Chechnya.
The surrender occurred following an agreement between a group of
rebel field commanders and Bislan Gantamirov, the former Grozny
mayor who now fight on the side of the federal troops. Grozny is the
capital of the breakaway republic.
This came after Saturday's surrender of 95 rebels across
Chechnya, where federal troops are in the fourth month of their
campaign to root out the militants.
Earlier Sunday, some 70 rebels laid down arms and, through a
special corridor, were moved to detention centers they were screened
for their possible involvement in terrorist acts, ...