The fledgling government is in a bind, he said, as officials try to demobilize militias and bring these groups into the government security forces.

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Officials said the company decided to demobilize approximately 25% of the contract workers, or around 500 miners, to hire and train direct mine workers to enhance safety and efficiency.

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The government did immediately demobilize.

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And the greatest danger here of course is that unlike the Cold War, unlike World War II, this is not a war that has a clean ending, so you cannot set a point at which we would demobilize and therefore get rid of some of this apparatus.

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