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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday September 27 2016, @12:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the farc-me-no-farc-you dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday September 27 2016, @03:10AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday September 27 2016, @03:10AM (#406830)

    http://colombiareports.com/colombia-carefully-planned-using-farc-computers-to-link-chavez-and-correa-to-rebels-wikileaks/ [colombiareports.com]

    A lot of elected officials in Colombia had some FARC ties since they couldn't get elected otherwise. Apparently, international and domestic blackmails over these ties got so common with the recent generation that they just had to sign some kind of amnesty deal to save their own necks.

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