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Colombia rebels to halt kidnapping

Associated Press

  February 27, 2012

Colombia’s main rebel group said Sunday it is abandoning the practice of kidnapping and will soon free its last remaining “prisoners of war,’’ 10 security force members held for as long as 14 years. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, announced on its website that it would no longer kidnap civilians “for financial ends,’’ marking the first time the rebels have unequivocally renounced a tool they have long employed against Colombia’s well-heeled.

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