More than 400 former members of the South Lebanon Army returned to Lebanon from Israel in the last month, U.N. sources said. The SLA men and their families were given asylum when Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon in May 2000. Criticizing their living conditions, more than 2,200 SLA members have since gone home.
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