FARC vow to continue to fight Colombian state

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http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/22347-farc-vow-to-continue-to-fight-colombian-state.html


Colombia's largest rebel group FARC announced Tuesday they will continue to combat the Colombian State until Bogota is willing to hold peace talks "and eliminate the structural causes of the conflict."

The FARC press release came the day after the 10th anniversary of the ending of the last peacetalks between rebels and government when "immense hordes of mercenary soldiers, trained by gringo advisers were sent to squash us."

According to the guerrilla commanders, "millions of Colombians were victims of state terror in the countryside and cities" in the past ten years while "the media themselves denigrated the revolutionary insurgency, persisting in presenting the leaders of 'paramilitarism' as saviors of the nation."

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The FARC vowed to "defend the ideas of life, national sovereignty, democracy and social justice with arms" while saying they are willing to hold peace talks with the government "about the only political solution with definitely ends confrontation: the elimination of the causes of the conflict. Without sticks and carrots, respecting the Colombian people."

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The FARC and the smaller ELN have been fighting the Colombian state since 1964. Both groups are determined terrorist groups by the U.S. and have been fiercely criticized by human rights groups for kidnapping, recruiting children, using landmines and attacking civillian targets. Both groups have repeatedly said they are willing to hold peace talks, but refuse to do so under conditions laid out by the Colombian government that demands the release of hostages and the end of terrorist activity.

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1. FARC is nothing more than a band of common

criminals and killers who hide behind the facade of being 'revolutionaries'. Uribe went a long way towards damaging them but, under Santos they're gaining some breathing room. Too bad for Colombia.