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Colombian civil war

A group of men and women, some holding arms stand around a man reading from a document.

Former FARC leaders announce new armed offensive in Colombia

Conflict & Justice

A group of former rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced it will launch a new armed offensive.

Eidanis Lamadrid, a founding member of the City of Women, stands in front of a neighbor's home. “I’m not sure that the peace process will bring peace here,” she said, referring to the Colombian government's peace deal with the FARC rebel group.

These Colombian women built their own city to escape violence. But peace is still elusive.

Conflict
Alejandra Segura is one of eight women deminers in Colombia.

Meet the woman helping clear Colombia of its deadly land mines

Conflict
A woman cries during a meeting between FARC guerrilla leaders and victims of the La Chinita massacre

Schools help Colombians remember what it means to forgive

Conflict
A Colombian police officer sits in the ruins of a police station destroyed by a deadly bomb attack in the municipality of Inza in Cauca province in December 2013, which was blamed on the FARC.

This FARC victim in the US voted against Colombia’s peace deal

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Colombians ‘chose vengeance over forgiveness,’ one reporter says

Conflict

The rejected peace deal between FARC rebels and the government took four years to negotiate, and would have officially ended five decades of conflict.

Colombians gather in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, to mark the signing of a historic peace deal with the FARC rebels.

Families are divided over Colombia’s peace vote

Conflict

Colombians vote this weekend on whether to approve a deal that would end 52 years of guerrilla war. The referendum is diving families, like that of reporter Luis Gallo.

General Ruben Dario Alzate was kidnapped by FARC in a village close to the provincial capital of Quibdó in northwestern Colombia.

A Colombian general’s bizarre behavior may have derailed his country’s fragile peace talks

Conflict

Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate was kidnapped by FARC, a Colombian guerilla group, after an unexplained, unarmed visit to a rural village. No one knows why he made the ill-informed decision, but the abduction may have ended efforts by FARC and the government to end their 50-year-old war.

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