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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: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday September 27 2016, @06:15PM
What's particularly absurd about it is that it isn't a crime to be a communist in America. The Powers That Be simply do everything they can to make it seem like a crime even though it isn't one.
The American Communist Party at least was a real organization, with members and annual meetings and such. That changed in the 1950's, when everybody associated with them was given the choice of:
(A) Confess, rat out all your friends and their activities in front of a congressional committee, and be considered "rehabilitated" or something, albeit still a source of suspicion.
(B) Never work again.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 27 2016, @07:51PM
For got to add that this happened in the early-mid 90's.