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Colombia: Largest dissident group FARC announces year-end truce

In a video released by W Radio, eight rebels wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying rifles ask the public forces for reciprocity in a ceasefire. | Fountain: AFP / reference image

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The largest group of dissident guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who did not accept a peace deal in 2016, have declared a unilateral ceasefire until January 2, the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Peace said this Saturday.

“By listening to (a) communities and organizational processes, EMC [Estado Mayor Central de las] FARC declare a unilateral ceasefire by January 2, 2023,” the High Commissioner for Peace tweeted. Danilo Rueda.

In the same week, the National Liberation Army (THEN) declared a truce, moving forward in Caracas peace talks with the Colombian government.

Both organizations promised to stop attacks on public forces until January 2.

According to the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petroother illegal structures such as the FARC Segunda Marquetalia dissidence, paramilitaries from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (North) and gangs from the port good luckmost importantly over the Pacific, also declared a ceasefire.

“We hope that genuine peace processes will strengthen,” Petro tweeted after the statement by the self-proclaimed Central General Staff of the FARC.

In a video released by W Radio, eight rebels wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying rifles ask the public forces for reciprocity in a ceasefire.

They also specify that the measure will apply in the conflict regions of Magdalena Medio, in the south of the department of Bolivar, Antioquia and Norte de Santander, bordering Venezuela.

On the recording, the militants assure that the truce will last until January 7.

In search of a “full world”

Under the pseudonym Ivan Mordisko, EMC FARC He expressed his interest in becoming part of the “full peace”, a policy through which Petro intends through dialogue to end the armed conflict that continues in Colombia despite the dissolution of the FARC.

In September, the peace commissioner met in the department kaketa (South) with delegates from this front to explore possible negotiations that have not officially started yet.

The independent think tank Indepaz estimates that there are about 2,000 guerrillas under Mordisco’s command.

According to Rueda, the former number two in the old FARC and peace negotiator in Havana, Ivan Marquezleader of the Segunda Marquetalia, also interested in participating in the peace talks he proposes Petrofirst left president Colombia.

For more than half a century, the Colombian armed conflict has left at least nine million dead and displaced.

(AFP)


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