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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 Wednesday September 28 2016, @12:21AM
Controversially, it will allow rebels to avoid prosecution for various war crimes so long as they admit to committing offenses.
There were people who wanted the Rebels in the US Civil War to be tried, but Lincoln and AFAIK most of the generals knew better. Lee's men were told to stack their rifles at Appomatox, and free to go as long as they no longer fought the Union. Lee walked. Later, Europe failed that lesson and gave us Versailles. Then the Allies learned it again and gave us the Marshall Plan. True war criminals in WW2 were still prosecuted, but most nazis walked. Now with this FARC business it might be a deal where almost everybody was technically a "war criminal" because of the way the war was conducted. That might be the reason for the blanket amnesty... or it could be a trap.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:47PM
South African Truth and Reconciliation.
Its not perfect, but its better.