Colombia FARC rebels stop levying 'tax' in peace drive
Colombia's FARC rebel force says it has halted recruiting fighters and demanding money from civilians as it works towards a historic peace deal with the government.
"Three months ago we stopped recruiting men and women to the ranks of the FARC," the force's leader Timoleon Jimenez was quoted as saying by the Colombian news agency Prensa Rural.
"I have also just given the order to the entire FARC command to suspend levying taxes on all legal economic activity in the regions," he added in the interview, published late Monday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been in a bloody territorial conflict with the Colombian state for 52 years.
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