A lot of the pressure the British government will seek to exert on Sinn Fein today will be to effectively decommission the weapons of the IRA.
However, this sticking point is not uniquely peculiar to Northern Ireland. In Sri Lanka, another place where substantial progress has been made towards a post confilct state, they it seems have struck the same rock.
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