Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 26, 2013 | News
The Colombian army on Tuesday accused the country’s largest rebel group, FARC, of using children as human shields during recent combat in the southwestern Cauca department. General Jorge Humberto Jerez, the commander of...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 25, 2013 | News
Nine Colombian soldiers were called to court over their alleged participation in the killing of a farmer accused of being a left-wing FARC member. Colombia’s Inspector General said the nine soldiers, belonging to an...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 25, 2013 | War and peace
The leader of Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, said Sunday that any peace dialogue between his organization and the government must take into account the “historical reasons of the conflict.”...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 24, 2013 | News
Attacks attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, killed on Friday and Saturday two soldiers and two civilians in the southwest and north of the country. On Friday, suspected rebels from the FARC’s 41st Front fired...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Mar 23, 2013 | News
Imprisoned “leaders” of Medellin crime syndicate, “Oficina de Envigado,” have been transferred to maximum security prisons in other parts of Colombia after reports surfaced about continued criminal activities within...
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