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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Colombia's government next month will begin to employ nearly 2,000 recently demobilized rightist United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia -- or AUC -- paramilitaries as "civilian auxiliaries" attached to local police forces.
The government hopes next year to employ an additional 4,000 "rehabilitated" militiamen in a similar capacity.
Seeking to allay public concern, Police Chief Gen. Jorge Daniel Castro said, "They will not be armed or uniformed." Castro's department is overseeing the training of the former paramilitaries.
Castro said the civilian auxiliaries will be deployed after a two-month course in citizenship, police philosophy, ethics, environmental protection and other topics.
EFE news agency reported that the program will be implemented in 14 of Colombia's 32 provinces.
Interior and Justice Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega said that the auxiliaries' tasks will include "preventing crime, patrolling highways and aiding security, if necessary, as oil-pipeline watchmen."
The employment of the former paramilitaries is an integral part of the peace process between the administration of President Alvaro Uribe and AUC, an umbrella organization of right-wing paramilitaries formed in 1997 to fight the country's leftist rebels.
Uribe's administration has little to show for its attempts to negotiate with the country's largest insurgency, the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, familiarly known as FARC.
Since a peace deal was signed in July 2003, the government and AUC have been negotiating a convoluted peace process that envisages the eventual disarmament of all 19,000 paramilitaries before the end of the year.
AUC is now baulking at the timetable it earlier agreed to. AUC's political chief Ernesto Baez argued during an interview with CMI television that the timetable was unrealistic and needs to be revised while the government insists that it be carried out.
Last week Uribe's chief negotiator, Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramirez, warned that if the AUC leadership attempts unilaterally to alter the timeframe and fails to disband by the end of the year the paramilitaries face military action.
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