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Colombia: FARC Celebrates Disarmament After 53 Years

HeadlineJun 28, 2017

In Colombia, the FARC celebrated its disarmament on Tuesday, in another historic step in the end of Colombia’s 53-year civil war. This is FARC leader Timoleón Jiménez.

Timoleón Jiménez: “Today doesn’t end the existence of the FARC. In truth, what we are putting an end to is our 53-year armed struggle, but we will continue to exist as a movement of legal and democratic character, which will develop its ideological, political and organizational actions, and its propaganda, through exclusively legal methods, peacefully, without weapons.”

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