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Under Peace Process, Jailed FARC Guerrillas Released

January 22 2016

Colombia

The Colombian government has freed 16 FARC prisoners as a goodwill gesture, reports Deutsche Welle.

The rebels, nine men and seven women, were the first from a group of 30 to be pardoned. The gesture to reciprocate for a unilateral ceasefire declared six months previously by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), said the office of the government's high commissioner for peace, reported AFP.

Thirty FARC members were pardoned by President Juan Manuel Santos in...

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