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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:57 AM Apr 2013

FARC-EP Thanks U.S. Congressmen for Supporting Peace Talks

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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http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1349571&Itemid=1

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FARC-EP Thanks U.S. Congressmen for Supporting Peace Talks (Original Post) Catherina Apr 2013 OP
I can see it coming: right-wing loons will start accusing these Congresspeople Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. I can see it coming: right-wing loons will start accusing these Congresspeople
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 03:53 AM
Apr 2013

of being in bed with the FARC.

That would fit the pattern, wouldn't it?

No matter what, it's great "James MacGovern, Janice D. Schakowsky, Joseph R. Pitts and John Lewis" have shown human concern for this process. They are excellent people.

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