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Weekly Report - 01 June 2017 (WR-17-21)
COLOMBIA: Farc disarmament postponed
The government led by President Juan Manuel Santos accepted a request this week from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) to extend the deadline for the completion of the disarmament process by 20 days to 20 June. It also prolonged the legal status of the 26 disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) camps [ZVTNs in the Spanish acronym], where 6,934 Farc guerrillas are gathered, for two more months until 1 August. “It is a small thing to end 53 years of confrontation and fratricidal violence,” Santos said in a televised message to the country. But Santos will be well aware that the revised deadlines will need to be met if public support for the peace process is not to be eroded.
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