For the second consecutive year, Colombia will host a panel of experts from twenty countries to discuss strategies for demobilizing former guerrilla combatants. Forty -seven technocrats will come from a…
More than 2,600 fighters deserted illegal armed groups in 2009, Colombian authorities announced on Monday. Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, suffered the most desertions, the Defense Ministry’s Program for…
Demobilized paramilitary fighters have so far admitted 24 thousand murders of Colombians, the latest report by the Prosecutor General’s Justice and Peace unit, responsible for the investigation of paramilitary crimes,…
Indigenous Embera Katio on Wednesday celebrated the demobilization of 32 tribe members from the FARC. The men were reintegrated into the community with a series of rites and ceremonies. Dressed…