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Disarmament – 1994

“UNOMOZ collected a total of 189,827 weapons, 43,491 of which belonged to paramilitary forces (out of a projected total of 49,806). This was significantly less than the amount of weapons that were known to be in Mozambique. Because of delays in the demobilization process, UNOMOZ was unable to complete the verification of weapons before the expiration of its mandate. Many of the weapons which were collected at the assembly areas were of poor quality, thus suggesting that the better quality weapons remained outside the disarmament process.”¹

1. “Practitioners’ Questionnaire on Weapons Control, Disarmament, and Demobilization During Peacekeeping Operations,” United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), 1995, vii-viii, in Peter Batchelor, Disarmament, Small Arms, and Intra-State Conflict: The Case of Southern Africa (Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Project—Small Arms Management and Peacekeeping in Southern Africa, 1996).