Civilians face heightened danger from Colombia’s landmines
1 year, 10 months ago

Civilians face heightened danger from Colombia’s landmines

Al Jazeera  

Bogota, Colombia – Berna Nastacuas Pai held a dangerous job as a member of a patrol that guards his Indigenous Awa community in southern Colombia. “Armed groups are placing landmines near civilian populations, near roads and paths that civilians as well as other armed groups and army members use,” Gonzalez said. Anyone can be a victim.” Last year, Colombia was one of only six countries in the world where non-state armed groups used landmines, according to a Landmine Monitor report. Under his “Total Peace” strategy, the left-wing leader has promised to negotiate an end to the conflict with the remaining armed groups and offer deals to criminal gangs committed to disbanding. “That’s why the government’s policy to dismantle armed groups and the causes that have made the armed conflict permanent in Colombia is so important,” said Parra.

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Dozens of former FARC fighters abandon ‘reincorporation’ village in Colombia after death threats
4 months ago

Dozens of former FARC fighters abandon ‘reincorporation’ village in Colombia after death threats

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Dozens of former guerrilla fighters and their families were forced to abandon their village in southern Colombia on Tuesday, after receiving death threats by a rebel group that is still fighting the government, authorities said. On Tuesday more than 80 people, including former fighters, their children and their spouses, left the Miravalle area for another village — …

Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military
7 months ago

Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military

Hindustan Times  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station in the rural town of Morales left at least two officers dead, according to police. Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military Colombia’s …

Colombia extends cease-fire with FARC splinter group in bid to reduce rural violence
11 months, 1 week ago

Colombia extends cease-fire with FARC splinter group in bid to reduce rural violence

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogota in an effort to reduce violence in rural parts of the country. “What we get to see now is whether this ceasefire can change that paradigm.” Colombia’s government in October announced …

Colombia signs 3-month cease-fire with FARC holdout group
1 year, 2 months ago

Colombia signs 3-month cease-fire with FARC holdout group

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government and the rebel group known as FARC-EMC on Monday signed a three-month cease-fire and formally began peace talks, as President Gustavo Petro tries to bolster his plans to pacify rural areas ahead of regional elections that will take place at the end of October. “Peace today seems to have been eclipsed when sirens, bombs, shouts …

Colombia announces cease-fire with a group that split off from the FARC rebels
1 year, 3 months ago

Colombia announces cease-fire with a group that split off from the FARC rebels

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s last remaining rebel groups announced Tuesday that they will start peace talks next month, and enter a 10-month cease-fire that is expected to decrease violence against civilians. The agreement between the Colombian government and the rebel group known as FARC-EMC comes as President Gustavo Petro tries to bolster his plans …

Colombian rebel group says it will stop attacks on military
1 year, 5 months ago

Colombian rebel group says it will stop attacks on military

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s largest rebel group said it will stop attacks on the nation’s military as it prepares for a ceasefire with the government that could bring both sides closer to ending five decades of war. In a statement published Tuesday, the National Liberation Army’s Central Command ordered its units across the country to “cease all offensive actions” against …

Colombia’s FARC rebel faction ready for ‘peace talks’
1 year, 8 months ago

Colombia’s FARC rebel faction ready for ‘peace talks’

Al Jazeera  

The Estado Mayor Central armed group, a FARC breakaway organisation, says it is ready to engage in peace talks with the government on May 16. An armed faction of Colombia’s disbanded FARC rebels has said they are ready to engage in peace talks with the government next month in what could mark a turning point for leftist President Gustavo Petro’s …

Red Cross finds deteriorating conditions for Colombia’s civilians
1 year, 9 months ago

Red Cross finds deteriorating conditions for Colombia’s civilians

Al Jazeera  

As armed groups continue to jostle for power, the Red Cross reports a six-year high in civilians injured by explosives. A new report from the International Committee of the Red Cross has found that violence between armed groups in Colombia continues to displace and maim civilians. In their annual report on the country’s humanitarian situation, the ICRC found that while …

Colombian police seize weapons in ‘important blow’ to armed group
1 year, 11 months ago

Colombian police seize weapons in ‘important blow’ to armed group

Al Jazeera  

Colombia’s national police force has said it confiscated an arsenal of weapons, including grenades and a machine gun, belonging to dissidents from the now-disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel group. Though the Estado Mayor Central dissidents rejected a 2016 peace deal between Bogota and the FARC, they had agreed to a recent ceasefire with the government of left-wing President …

Colombia armed groups confining people to homes, communities: NRC
2 years, 1 month ago

Colombia armed groups confining people to homes, communities: NRC

Al Jazeera  

Norwegian Refugee Council calls for ‘lasting peace’ to end restrictions on freedom of movement across Colombia. The NRC said on Thursday that millions of people are affected by six “ongoing non-international armed conflicts” in which armed groups use confinement “to exert control over isolated communities and territories that are often used for illicit activities”. “We call on the Colombian government …

Colombia: At least 23 dead in clashes between armed rebel groups
2 years, 11 months ago

Colombia: At least 23 dead in clashes between armed rebel groups

Al Jazeera  

Bogota, Colombia – Violent confrontations between Colombian rebel groups near the country’s border with Venezuela have left at least 23 people dead, Defence Minister Diego Molano told a news conference late on Monday. The ombudsman’s office expressed “deep concern for the escalation of the armed conflict in Arauca due to the confrontation between illegal armed groups that put the civilian …

Colombia charges former FARC rebels with destruction of Amazon
3 years ago

Colombia charges former FARC rebels with destruction of Amazon

Al Jazeera  

The government says the faction cleared large portions of rainforest to bring in cattle and grow plants to make cocaine. Colombia has charged the leader of a breakaway faction of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel group with deforesting vast portions of the Amazon rainforest. Attorney general Francisco Barbosa said on Thursday that Miguel Botache Santillana had been …

AP source: US delisting Colombia rebels as terror group
3 years, 1 month ago

AP source: US delisting Colombia rebels as terror group

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday it is ending Colombia’s largest guerrilla group’s designation as a terrorist organization, according to a congressional aide granted anonymity to discuss the situation. Price called the peace deal a “seminal turning point in some ways in the long-running Colombia conflict.” The group today is designated as a political party, with a …

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