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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The last major paramilitary leader to enter into a peace deal with the government handed in his weapon Tuesday, even as the future of that fragile accord was called into doubt by other ex-milita leaders.
Freddy Rendon Herrera and 745 fighters from the Elmer Cardenas bloc handed in 447 rifles in a disarmament ceremony in Unguia, a village 370 miles northwest of Bogota.
The government said Herrera was the last paramilitary leader to disarm under a 2003 peace deal that promised fighters reduced sentences and protection from extradition to the United States in exchange for their pledge to renounce violence.
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