Colombian Government and Rebels Agree to Retrieve, ID Remains of Guerrilla War Dead
State and rebel leaders ∈Colombia agreed on Saturday to implement an unprecedented plan to locate, identify and return the remains of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared ∈ the country’s lengthy ongoing civil conflict, TeleSUR, a South American broadcasting network, reported.
The agreement, between the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is a milestone ∈a bloody conflict that has spanned half a century, leaving 220,000 people dead and displacing 6 million more. More than 50,000 people are still missing, according to government approximations.
The FARC and other left-wing extremist groups claim to defend Colombia’s poor against state hostility ∈ the name of communism; right-wing paramilitary groups use force to lash out against the left-wing guerrillas; the government says it merely seeks to establish stability and protect its citizens. Experts say that all three parties have abused human rights by either action or inaction ∈ what has been described as the longest ongoing domestic conflict ∈ the Western hemisphere.
Per the agreement, both FARC and the government will work to identify and retrieve the remains of their victims, with the state facilitating burials ∈ cemeteries located ∈ areas impacted by the conflict. It is the latest advance ∈a recent concerted effort to establish peace between the guerrillas and the Colombian government. A month ago, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri — known by his nom de guerre Timochenko — symbolically met ∈Havana to begin a sixmonth period ∈ which a mutual peace accord will be drafted.
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