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The Colombian government and Farc rebels are set to sign a peace deal, although the terms of the deal are subject to a referendum:
The Colombian government and left-wing Farc rebels are set to sign a historic agreement deal that formally brings an end to 52 years of civil war. The last of the major Cold War conflicts killed 260,000 people and left six million internally displaced. President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, will use a pen made from a bullet to sign the deal on Monday.
[...] Under the deal, the Farc will be relaunched as a political party. The agreement will be put to Colombian voters in a popular vote on 2 October. It comes after four years of talks in Havana, Cuba, between President Santos and Timochenko, The pair will shake hands on Colombian soil for the first time.
Controversially, it will allow rebels to avoid prosecution for various war crimes so long as they admit to committing offenses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2016, @02:17AM
Synonyms: truce; cease-fire
Not a synonym: peace treaty
escalating their dick-waving
The numbers involved are amazing:
A cease-fire that has lasted (more or less) for 63 years without some 1st lieutenant with an itchy finger reingniting the whole thing.
The capital city of the USA's ally is just 35 miles from the "Demilitarized" Zone.
...easily within missile range.
...or even gun technology from a century ago. [google.com]
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...and Fristy caught the fact that FARC is an initialism (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and that each letter should be capitalized (in e.g. the page title).
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2016, @01:59PM
There's been plenty of itchy fingers, though, like the Axe Murder Incident [wikipedia.org] which is as incredible as it sounds.
More recently was the sinking of ROKS Cheonan [wikipedia.org] although whether North Korea was responsible is in dispute.