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Weekly Report - 04 April 2012 (WR-12-14)
COLOMBIA: Farc hostage release marks end of the beginning
Colombia celebrated this week the release of the last 10 so-called ‘exchangeable prisoners’ (members of the police and armed forces) held in captivity by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) for more than a decade. The unilateral gesture by the world’s longest standing guerrilla group closes one of the most nefarious chapters of the Colombian internal conflict, but it is far from bringing about the end of the story. The celebrations of the relatives of those hostages who were released have been marred by the ongoing suffering of those civilians who remain captive (or whose whereabouts remain unknown). Their exact number is unclear, but estimates compiled by local NGOs put it at between 405 and 725 [WR-12-09].
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