Colombia's FARC seeks reinvention as political party

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Leftist FARC guerrillas on Saturday vowed to lay down their weapons and reinvent themselves as a political party, if the Colombian government follows through with the reforms under discussion in peace talks.

The rebel group, whose full name is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, "is committed to ensuring that the armed hostilities of the past don't get recur," one of its negotiators Jesus Santrich said in a statement read to the media at the start of another day of talks.

Among the changes the FARC hopes to see, Santrich said, is the group's "transformation into a political movement that can work to bring about structural change" in Colombia.

The FARC as a political party would also endeavor to bring about reparations for victims, and to preserve "the historical truth" about the country's decades-old civil conflict, he said.

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1. Seeing is believing. Time will tell if there's any

sincerity here on FARC's part to genuinely disarm, as opposed to staging another re-equip and re-arm 'truce' to be followed by renewed armed conflict.