An indefinite truce between the government in Bogota and Colombia’s largest rebel group has gone into effect. It comes after the Colombian government and FARC agreed on a historic peace agreement last week.
The permanent and definitive ceasefire went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday (0500 UTC) and ended a 52-year-old war between the Colombian state and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), after the two sides agreed last week on a historic peace agreement.
FARC supremo Rodrigo Londono gave the ceasefire order from Havana, where the two sides conducted four years of peace negotiations.
“Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” said Londono, who is also known as Timochenko. “All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past.”
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