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Detailed Implementation Timeline – 1996

None of the specific provisions mentioned in the timeline were implemented within the specified timeframe this year. The DDR process was abandoned before it began. The Demobilization and Resettlement Committee was never operational and no Assembly Zones were established. The mercenaries from the defense firm Executive Outcomes left the country on their own in February of 1997 rather than being confined to barracks under the supervision of the Joint Monitoring Group and the Neutral Monitoring Group as stipulated in the accord. The Neutral Monitoring Group (NMG) was not created. The RUF/SL were not transformed into a political party and a National Electoral Commission was never established.