Peru rebels to 'surrender on Monday'
Reuters, Lima
The leader of a 200-strong armed group that killed four policemen and seized a police station and part of a southern Peruvian town, to demand the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo, said it would hand over its weapons on Monday. Former army Maj. Antauro Humala made his offer in a public speech in the Andean town of Andahuaylas broadcast by RPP radio after mediation by church and other officials and a pledge by Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero that they would not be hurt. The government said it captured nine rebels.
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