March 11, 2015
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos announced yesterday that Army bombardments of FARC camps would be suspended for one month. This announcement comes in recognition of FARC compliance with the unilateral ceasefire they had declared on December 18, 2014. It also recognized progress at the peace table, including the new humanitarian accord reached this week by the government and the FARC that will initiate de-mining in some of the regions most severely affected by the scourge of land mines. “Anti-personnel mines are a wound in the heart, a shame for Colombia, that we are going to eliminate,” declared President Santos in his statement. View the President’s remarks here:
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