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WPEC
February 6, 2018
The lawsuit says the men were “kidnapped, held hostage, and murdered by the Colombian terrorist group,” Armed Revolutionaries of Colombia, known by its initials in Spanish as FARC. The suits spell out how, in the case of the missionaries, spouses and children were present as FARC guerillas stormed Colombian andÃÂ ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
February 5, 2018
After decades of violence from all sides (a trend catalyzed by elite money and social dominance), the FARC would also turn to kidnapping for ransom, holding hostages, and killing policemen and political opponents. The matter was further complicated by the paramilitary death squads, funded by the U.S.ÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
January 29, 2018
Santos reached a peace agreement with what had been the nation's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in late 2016, ending Latin America's longest-running conflict. The end of that conflict has been hailed internationally, though it has also opened a new powerÃÂ ...
The McGill International Review
January 24, 2018
On September 26 2016, the Colombian government and the guerrilla insurgency Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed a peace ... either exchange the people they kidnapped for “political prisoners” (or imprisoned FARC members) or to get money from family members of the kidnapped,ÃÂ ...
Insightcrime.org
January 16, 2018
In November 2016, a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC) was signed. By March 2017, about 7,000 rebels were gathered in 26 specially designated zones across the country. Added to this number were released prisonersÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
January 13, 2018
Efforts to end decades of violence in the South American nation gained momentum after the much larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached a historic peace deal with the government in 2016. But despite some progress in talks with the ELN, the group has continued to take hostages for ransom andÃÂ ...
Men's Journal
April 25, 2017
That night the rebel leader, a woman named Carolina who had joined the FARC at 18 and risen through the ranks, questioned them at length. The next morning most of the paddlers sat in on English classes at the village school. No one was free to go yet, but it just seemed like a matter of time. That night four of the kayakersÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
December 31, 1999
MIAMI (AP) — The families of six Americans kidnapped and killed in Colombia during the 1990s by the terrorist organization known as FARC are seeking potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages from banana giant Chiquita Brands International because of payments the company made to the group.
ReliefWeb
December 27, 2017
The prisoners would be arriving soon and Adriana Combita, like a young teacher preparing to greet a new class, was nervous. ... of magistrates established under the peace accords that ended 52 years of war between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC.)ÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
December 15, 2017
Last week, Colombia marked the one-year anniversary of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), which ended fifty years of armed civil conflict that resulted in over two hundred thousand deaths and the displacement of nearly seven millionÃÂ ...
The City Paper Bogota
December 14, 2017
Even though the names of places that dot the landscape of western Guaviare are increasingly becoming synonymous with adventure tourism, for those who remember this country's recent past, FARC handed- over many hostages in these grassy knolls as part of a “prisoner of war” exchange with theÃÂ ...
Edmonton Journal
August 26, 2017
Canadian miner Norbert Reinhart is led from a hearing at a Colombian court. The Canadian diamond driller, who made headlines as a captive of the FARC in the late 1990s, was in prison after being accused of arranging the murder of a business partner —charges he and daughter Molly adamantly deny.
Insightcrime.org
July 21, 2017
By the start of July, more than six months after the passing of the amnesty law, only 30 percent of FARC prisoners had been released, according to prisoner's rights groups. A report by a coalition of such networks details how the FARC have recognized 3,400 prisoners as members, while the governmentÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
July 14, 2017
An estimated 1,346 FARC political prisoners have been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks demanding their release. The U.N. mission also called on officials to ensure the physical security of disarmed militants, who are stationed in 26 transitional zones intended to reintegrate them into society,ÃÂ ...
Outside Magazine
May 11, 2017
Last November, when the Colombian government struck a long-awaited peace accord with the rebel group FARC, which has occupied the country's jungles for decades, Ben Stookesberry began planning a kayaking trip to the embattled country. He and four fellow paddlers had their sights set on the Rio Apaporis,ÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
May 4, 2017
FARC leader Ivan Marquez said in an interview this week with Red Mas Noticias that if needed, the two sides would extend the May 31 deadline to complete the demobilisation process, adding that the rebels will not begin turning over their arms until the government follows through on its commitment to freeÃÂ ...
Men's Journal
April 25, 2017
That night the rebel leader, a woman named Carolina who had joined the FARC at 18 and risen through the ranks, questioned them at length. The next morning most of the paddlers sat in on English classes at the village school. No one was free to go yet, but it just seemed like a matter of time. That night four of the kayakersÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 27, 2017
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's now-demobilized FARC rebel group ... and business people, earned ransoms from hostage taking and soldÃÂ ...
Edmonton Sun
August 27, 2017
Famed Canadian FARC hostage released from Colombian prison ... courthouse — 42 prisoners in a small, maybe 20-square-metre cell with noÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
August 19, 2017
“My father was kidnapped by the FARC and my family had to flee ... “They really have to free these prisoners detained simply because theyÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
August 14, 2017
... peace process with Marxist FARC rebels and talks with the country's ... elections, releases all political prisoners and ends the repression ofÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 10, 2017
During some of the darkest years of the Colombian civil war, Venezuela served as a refuge for the country's Farc rebels – but it also played anÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
August 9, 2017
The FARC committed systematic atrocities for more than five decades, ... Its forces killed and abducted civilians, took hostages, carried outÃÂ ...
Edmonton Journal
August 8, 2017
Former FARC captive who received hero's welcome in Canada ... to take the place of an employee taken hostage by the Marxist militant group.
teleSUR English
July 21, 2017
The amnesty decree grants prisoners a “conditional release” with the ... As a result of the announcement, another FARC-EP leader, JesusÃÂ ...
Insightcrime.org
July 21, 2017
Colombia Amnesty Decree Eases Fears Over FARC Prisoners ... of FARC prisoners had been released, according to prisoner's rights groups.
Colombia Focus
July 20, 2017
The police have indicated that members of FARC's 7th front were among the dissidents who infiltrated the farmers and instigated theÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
July 15, 2017
FARC Leader Leaves Hospital, as Govt Announces Release of Former ... the Colombian governement that the prisoners' continuing detentionÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
July 14, 2017
Hunger Striking FARC leader Santrich in Critical Condition ... The United Nations is also calling for the government release the prisoners.
Colombia Reports
July 14, 2017
The United Nations said Colombia's government was undermining the country's peace process by failing to release imprisoned FARCÃÂ ...
Insightcrime.org
July 12, 2017
The first census of the ex-guerrilla group known as the FARC show the ... were guerrillas, 29 percent urban militias and 16 percent prisoners.
The Bogota Post
July 12, 2017
On June 27, the FARC disarmament process was completed in a historic ... the judicial system of discriminating against guerrilla prisoners.
Outside Magazine
May 11, 2017
Last November, when the Colombian government struck a long-awaited peace accord with the rebel group FARC, which has occupied the country's jungles forÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
May 4, 2017
The 15 ambassadors will meet Colombian politicians, members of civil society and victims of the conflict, and also travel to one of the FARCÃÂ ...
Press TV
May 4, 2017
UN observers arrive at a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in La Carmelita near Puerto Asis, in Colombia'sÃÂ ...
Men's Journal
April 25, 2017
Unfortunately the rebel faction controlling the Apaporis has decided not to participate. “The situation was a lot more dynamic and a lot less stable than we hadÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 25, 2017
Almost 100 FARC political prisoners began an indefinite hunger strike on Saturday to demand better prison conditions and an acceleration andÃÂ ...
Edmonton Journal
December 31, 1999
In 1998, he traded places with an employee taken hostage by the FARC and spent ... 42 prisoners in a small, maybe 20-square-metre cell with no air movement.
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) defended its ... from various criminal activities such as extortion, taking hostages forÃÂ ...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebel group included footwear ... from hostage takings and sold coca, the base ingredient in cocaine,ÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
March 29, 2017
Nearly two dozen countries have joined Almagro's efforts to implement the democratic charter on Venezuela, which could bring about free and open elections, reinstate respect for human rights and release political prisoners. (Tu noticia Venezuela ...
The Jeju Weekly
March 28, 2017
In the end, 131 died in combat, 476 were injured, 69 went missing, and 30 were taken as prisoners. ... Relying on his Three Pillars of peace, equity, and education, Colombia has seen some of its most significant advances in decades, including a rapidly ...
Colombo Page
March 26, 2017
Columbia struck a peace deal, with FARC in 2016, to bring an end to more than 50 years of conflict. These developments, underline the need for, out of box thinking; the importance of moving ahead, without being hostage, to the past. On the other hand ...
Colombia Reports
March 24, 2017
The government did urge Maduro to release the opposition politicians they consider political prisoners, "recognize the legitimacy of the decisions of the National Assembly, and that an electoral calendar is set up that includes postponed elections ...
Miami Herald
March 23, 2017
Now that the FARC - Latin America's oldest and largest guerrilla group - is demobilizing in the wake of a historic peace deal, Maleywa's work is finally emerging from the wilderness.
Inquirer.net
March 20, 2017
President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped the peace talks last month after the communists insisted on their demand to free their political prisoners and called off its unilateral ceasefire and launched a series of attacks against state forces. The AFP ...
Northern News
March 20, 2017
This committee was created by the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombia government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Mendez was president of ICTJ from ... As a result of his involvement in representing political prisoners, the ...
The World Weekly
March 17, 2017
B oko Haram's activities in northern Cameroon are rarely mentioned. This week the national government said it had successfully captured one of the insurgent group's strongholds in the Mandara mountains and freed at least 5,000 hostages, including ...
The World Weekly
March 16, 2017
B oko Haram's activities in northern Cameroon are rarely mentioned. This week the national government said it had successfully captured one of the insurgent group's strongholds in the Mandara mountains and freed at least 5,000 hostages, including ...
gulfnews.com
March 11, 2017
... conflict between Colombia's government and Farc rebels. Many ex-combatants became soldiers when they were children, but through education programmes, skills training and job placement, they will be given a realistic chance to integrate into ...
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