Jīngguò sān ge yuè de qīngjiǎo, shānqū de tǔfěi jīběn bèi xiāomiè le.
After three months of mopping-up operations, the bandits in the mountains were all but wiped out.
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清剿 is military and police news vocabulary for clearing out armed groups that hold out in an area: bandits, insurgents, drug gangs. The character 剿 means to wipe out by force, as in 剿匪 (to suppress bandits).