Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Colombia's Farc completes disarmament




    Farc rebels in Colombia have handed over all of their personal weapons, completing the transfer of arms a day ahead of a revised schedule.
    According to United Nations monitoring Colombia, a total of 7,132 weapons have been registered and boxed away.

   The monitors said they had also found and emptied 77 out of the Farc's 900 arms caches hidden around the countryside.
   The arms handover is a key condition in last year's peace agreement, which seeks to end more than five decades of conflict and negotiations between Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group and the government.
   But U.S monitors have warned that the task of locating and emptying the Farc's remaining caches could take many months because of the difficulty in reaching them.
   Some of them are reachable only by river or foot through dense jungle and mountain terrain.

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