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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Mon Aug 29, 2016, 12:40 AM Aug 2016

Colombia Farc rebels announce definitive ceasefire

Source: BBC News

Colombia Farc rebels announce definitive ceasefire

1 hour ago

The main leftist rebel group in Colombia, the Farc, has ordered all its fighters to observe a ceasefire from midnight local time (05:00 GMT Monday).

The ceasefire brings to an end the group's 52-year-old war, one of the world's longest insurgencies, after four years of peace talks in Cuba. The final peace agreement will be signed in the next few weeks.

Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, gave the order to stop firing.

"Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,'' Timochenko told journalists. "All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past," he said.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37211085

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Colombia Farc rebels announce definitive ceasefire (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2016 OP

So the Colombian government, the US government and FARC have finally agreed to a three way cut Monk06 Aug 2016 #1

This has to have come with major concessions by the CIA. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2016 #2

2nd Amendment solutions? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2016 #3

A 52 year war..has ended...!!! Peace....k and r..something special has happened somewhere!!! Stuart G Aug 2016 #4

I hope it holds NWCorona Aug 2016 #5

So do I...but it looks like they have been working on it for a long time..in Cuba Stuart G Aug 2016 #6

Monk06

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1. So the Colombian government, the US government and FARC have finally agreed to a three way cut

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 01:55 AM

Aug 2016

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They could have done that thirty years ago and a lot of people would still be alive today

Spitfire of ATJ

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2. This has to have come with major concessions by the CIA.

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 03:34 AM

Aug 2016

Nuclear Unicorn

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3. 2nd Amendment solutions?

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 07:28 AM

Aug 2016

Stuart G

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4. A 52 year war..has ended...!!! Peace....k and r..something special has happened somewhere!!!

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 09:20 PM

Aug 2016

NWCorona

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5. I hope it holds

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Mon Aug 29, 2016, 09:43 PM

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Stuart G

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6. So do I...but it looks like they have been working on it for a long time..in Cuba