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Worldwide Marches Against FARC Today

10:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Colombia| Politics| World

4 Feb 2008

_44402142_tshirt_ap203b.jpgAll over the world today, millions of Colombians are expected to gather, not just demanding peace, as they have been for sometime, but specifically against the FARC. The call is that at noon, whatever time zone you are in, to demand an end to the FARC and their attacks against the community. The movement was begun over the internet, according to the official press release, on Facebook. For about a month now (that’s when I myself began getting emails) people have been organizing to stop what some are calling a reign of terror against the Colombian populace, carried out by the FARC via kidnappings and violence. But not everyone is with the program, some family members of hostages held by the FARC are concerned that such an action will incur more violence against their loved ones.

“Maybe neither the hostages not the humanitarian exchange or peace will benefit,” the mother of Ingrid Betancourt, a high-profile hostage, is quoted as saying in Semana magazine

Via / BBC and Colombia Soy Yo

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