Posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 31, 2013 | War and peace
The Colombian government’s lead negotiator for peace talks with the FARC, the country’s largest rebel group, on Wednesday said that kidnapping security forces rules out the possibility of a bilateral ceasefire. “A...
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Insurgents from Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, early Thursday morning killed four soldiers and were accused of kidnapping three civilian engineers in southwestern Colombia. In the southwestern Nariño department,...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 30, 2013 | News
Colombia’s defense minister on Wednesday rejected the FARC’s kidnapping of two policemen in the southwestern Valle del Cauca department. “Only the infamous justify their actions. We can see what is [on] their minds and...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 30, 2013 | News
The FARC, Colombia’s largest rebel group, on Tuesday killed a soldier in the northern Colombian department of La Guajira. According to local media, the soldier was killed while his unit was trying to repel an attack from...
Read MorePosted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson | Jan 30, 2013 | War and peace
Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC, is “challenging” the ongoing peace process with the government by taking “prisoners of war,” said Colombian vice president Angelino Garzon on Wednesday. Garzon said the FARC’s decision to...
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