Colombia rebels free soldier ahead of ceasefire

Colombia rebels free soldier ahead of ceasefire
July 21, 2015

BOGOTA: Colombia’s Farc guerrillas freed a captive soldier on Sunday in an apparent good will gesture hours before they start observing a unilateral ceasefire.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia announced the month-long truce on July 8 and said it would begin at midnight on Sunday.

With hours to go before the ceasefire, the Farc issued a statement saying its forces should refrain from operations of an offensive nature against government forces and public or private infrastructure.

But in a sign of how fragile the peace process is, the statement said no Farc unit “is obliged to let itself be hit by enemy forces, and will have every right to exercise legitimate defense if attacked.”

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