FARC-EP Thanks U.S. Congressmen for Supporting Peace Talks [View all]
FARC-EP Thanks U.S. Congressmen for Supporting Peace Talks
Havana, Apr 25 (Prensa Latina) The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) expressed their thanks here today to U.S. congressional representatives for supporting the peace process that seeks to end the armed conflict that has lasted more than half a century.
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They also mentioned their request to raise any possible agreement in Havana to the rank of Special Agreement, to which the rules of international humanitarian law would be applied, to be incorporated constitutionally and thereby legitimize the status of peace as a right and duty of all Colombians.
The guerrilla acknowledged U.S. congressional concern with respect to victims of the conflict, with emphasis on the more than five million people displaced by the slaughter of members of the Patriotic Union (the party that emerged in 1985 after several guerrilla fronts were demobilized) and the more than three thousand extra-judicial executions that occurred during the government of Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010).
Among the congressmen that were sent the letter, are James MacGovern, Janice D. Schakowsky, Joseph R. Pitts and John Lewis.
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