Colombia Farc rebels announce definitive ceasefire
Source: BBC News
Colombia Farc rebels announce definitive ceasefire
1 hour ago
The main leftist rebel group in Colombia, the Farc, has ordered all its fighters to observe a ceasefire from midnight local time (05:00 GMT Monday).
The ceasefire brings to an end the group's 52-year-old war, one of the world's longest insurgencies, after four years of peace talks in Cuba. The final peace agreement will be signed in the next few weeks.
Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, gave the order to stop firing.
"Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,'' Timochenko told journalists. "All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past," he said.
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Monk06
(7,675 posts)of the cocaine trade
They could have done that thirty years ago and a lot of people would still be alive today
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(32,723 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)And it has a very good chance of being and end to an awful war.