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Colombia Explained: The FARC

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The History of the FARC, Colombia's oldest and largest living rebel group. MORE: colombiareports.co/farc/

Colombia Reports new video series called "Colombia Explained" will tell you what you need to know about the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Credits:
Broadcaster/Writer/Editor: Daniel "Danny" Freeman
Fact Checker: Adriaan Alsema
Camera: Jenifer Rivera and Mimi Yagoub


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The most perfect explanation on how the FARC became what they are and what happened and what is now they are demanding.

 
oldest and largest living rebel group

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an irregular military organization involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict since 1964.[9][10][11][12] The FARC-EP have a claim to be an army of peasant Marxist–Leninists with a political platform of agrarianism and anti-imperialism. The operations of the FARC–EP are funded by kidnap to ransom, illegal mining, extortion and the production and distribution of illegal drugs.[13][14]...

In 2013 it was reported that 26,648 FARC and ELN members had decided to demobilize since 2002.[15] According to a report from Human Rights Watch, approximately 20–30% of the recruits are minors, most of whom are forced to join the FARC.[16]...

FARC has been accused of committing violations of human rights by numerous groups, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations as well as by the Colombian, U.S. and European Union governments. A February 2005 report from the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, "FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches [of human rights] such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including men, women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups."[226]
FARC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


It's a nasty gang of child abusers, not a "rebel group".
 
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Video @: [/FONT][/COLOR][h=1]Colombia Explained: The FARC[/h]
The most perfect explanation on how the FARC became what they are and what happened and what is now they are demanding.


They could make these demands far more effectively if they stopped kidnapping people (even during supposed peace negotiations)

What you have to ask yourself is why other rebels groups have suceeded in reaching peace agreements with the government (many of Colombias top politicians are former rebels) whereas the FARC haven't

I'll admit i don't know a huge amount of issue but as far as i can tell the group arose at the time when there was no democratic outlet for their grevences and resorting to violence was necessary to survive. However no that this is no longer the case and Santos is probably the most pro-peace president Colombia is ever going to have, yet they still seem to find violence, money and power more convient (and to an increasing extent an end in themselves in contrast to their earlier days) .
 
They could make these demands far more effectively if they stopped kidnapping people (even during supposed peace negotiations)

What you have to ask yourself is why other rebels groups have suceeded in reaching peace agreements with the government (many of Colombias top politicians are former rebels) whereas the FARC haven't

I'll admit i don't know a huge amount of issue but as far as i can tell the group arose at the time when there was no democratic outlet for their grevences and resorting to violence was necessary to survive. However no that this is no longer the case and Santos is probably the most pro-peace president Colombia is ever going to have, yet they still seem to find violence, money and power more convient (and to an increasing extent an end in themselves in contrast to their earlier days) .

The simple fact of the matter is that the leadership of the FARC went from a People's Vanguard to a bunch of War Profiteers.

This how they make their money. They maintain their authority. And they've been used to it for decades now. This takes an international push into the rainforest, denuding it for economic growth and an increase in stability.
 
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