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Colombia witnessed the largest disarmament ceremony in its violent history Friday with a weapons hand-over by more than 2,800 right-wing militia fighters led by a man wanted on drug charges in the United States.
Wearing fatigues, the fighters from the Miners Bloc of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, handed over the weapons to government Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo on a ranch near Taraza.
Paramilitary factions have been disarming since 2003 as part of a peace deal brokered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that seeks to dismantle the AUC.
