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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Colombian forces killed five militants of the FARC


Colombian forces killed five militants of the FARC

Attack Colombian forces killed five members of the leftist rebel group FARC , on Wednesday , said a military source .

The attack is the latest in a series of military operations that killed 26 militants since the weekend , the source said , AFP reported .

The clashes came amid ongoing peace talks in Havana , Cuba , aimed at ending 50 years of violence in Colombia .

Military sources said that the clashes Wednesday in the area of Meta , Colombia middle , troops killed five militants and arrested eight people .

Tuesday , the military said seven militants were killed in the operation in the Tolima region , also in central Colombia .

According to the military , 14 militants were killed in air and ground assault on the weekend against a rebel base in the rural areas near Venezuela .

President Juan Manuel Santos has promised to continue pressing the government despite FARC peace talks with the group in Havana .

" Military offensive will continue until we reach an agreement , " said Santos told Spanish media on Tuesday , during a visit to Madrid .

Negotiations between the two parties began again last Monday ( 13/1 ) after discontinuation over three weeks.

For more than a year , the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) peace talks in Cuba with the aim of ending Latin America 's longest conflicts .

Of the five -point agenda , both parties have so far only reached two agreements - land reform and the participation of the rebel group in politics if they end the war that has lasted nearly 50 years . Other issues on the agenda is drug trafficking , compensation of victims of war and an end to the conflict .

FARC has admitted for the first time some of the responsibility for the bloodshed decades , which implies significant changes in their attitudes as long as it is still claimed that group members become victims of government repression .

The Colombian government and FARC started a dialogue in Oslo , the capital of Norway , on October 18, 2012 aimed at ending a half-century conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people . The talks followed a month later in Havana , Cuba .

Three previous attempts to end the conflict have failed .

The last round of negotiations was held in 2002 failed when the Colombian government concluded that the group is uniting again in a demilitarized zone covering an area of ​​Switzerland which they form to help achieve peace treaty .

Violence continues despite peace efforts made ​​by both parties .

FARC , the largest leftist guerrilla group that is still left in Latin America , is believed to have about 9,200 members in the forests and mountains in Colombia , according to government estimates . The group fight

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