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Weekly Report - 16 April 2015 (WR-15-15)

COLOMBIA: Massive march for peace but Santos resumes air strikes

President Juan Manuel Santos, the embattled leftist mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, politicians from (mainly leftist) parties, and a host of social organisations and victims’ rights groups were among some 300,000 people who participated in a ‘march for peace’ in Bogotá and other cities in Colombia on 9 April. On the same day Santos extended the suspension of air strikes against the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) for a second spell of 30 days. But on 15 April he ordered them to resume after a Farc attack in the south-western department of Cauca claimed the lives of 11 soldiers. Santos said the attack by Farc guerrillas constituted a “clear breach” of the unilateral ceasefire declared by the Farc last December.

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