A group of 150 Colombian intellectuals that is trying to establish a
dialogue with the FARC asks Colombia’s largest rebel group if it is
willing to stop kidnapping people in the draft of a second letter to be sent to the
rebels.
The first letter sent by the group was to ask the FARC for a dialogue. The FARC, in a reply, agreed with a dialogue “that it open and honest, without dogmas, without sectarianism and without downgrading the suggested topics.”
In their reply, the intellectuals state “the practice of kidnapping is inherently inhumane and can not be defended without at one time entering the swampy terrain where the motto of the end justifies all means houses.”
The letter again calls for a dialogue with “realistic conditions to find agreement.”