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Kidnappings in Colombia: FARC leaders acknowledge full responsibility 7 May 2021 By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano, our correspondent in Colombia In what has been the clearest result so far of Colombia’s transitional justice, last Friday, seven top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces acknowledged their responsibility over thousands of kidnappings and asked for victims’ forgiveness. They also accepted that these amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Share Republish × You are free to republish this article both online and in print. We ask that you follow some s...

Colombia set to charge former FARC commanders for kidnapping January 28, 2021 Colombia’s war crimes tribunal is set to charge eight former commanders of demobilized guerrilla group FARC for kidnapping, local media reported Wednesday. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) will additionally charge the commanders for their alleged responsibility in the “taking of hostages and grave deprivation of liberty” of thousands of people. The charges are considerably more serious and explicit than the initial investigation into the “illegal retention of people by the FARC,” considered a euphe...