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Weekly Report - 21 August 2014 (WR-14-33)

COLOMBIA: Victims turn up the heat on government and Farc

More than six million faceless victims of Colombia’s long and brutal armed conflict were finally given a voice on 16 August with the participation of a dozen of their number in the peace negotiations between the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in Cuba. Victims have never before taken part in Colombian peace talks and both sides were moved to release a joint statement stressing the significance of the meeting as “a transcendental part of the process”.

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