| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | War on Drugs
Kolumbien. Colombia’s troubled peace
Peace accords signed between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as FARC, have ended a half-century conflict that killed 260,000 people and displaced another six million.
But it does not mean an end to Colombia’s violence. FARC’s smaller revolutionary cousin, the ELN, or National Liberation Army, has agreed a temporary ceasefire but has not yet laid down its weapons. Neither do the peace accords disband the rightwing paramilitaries who carried out the bulk of the killings during the civil war. They have transformed into criminal gangs that control significant swaths of territory in which the state has little presence. (IRIN, 08.9.2017)
http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/colombia-s-troubled-peace-1