Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said Monday all conditions are met for the guerrillas to be granted the status of a belligerent force, which would bind the rebels and government to international war laws.
In an interview with Cuba’s state press agency Prensa Latina, FARC negotiator “Andres Paris” said that “if the government sat down at the [peace talks] table and the Red Cross has been guarantor of the moving of our fighters and commanders to Cuba, it means all requirements of the Geneva Protocol to be recognized as a belligerent force are met.”
The FARC, determined a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Europe, is currently not recognized as belligerent force, but as an insurgency.
According to Crimes of War, a website on international war law, a rebel group can gain “belligerent status” if “