Colombia: Rebels and Soldiers Who Don’t Qualify for Colombia’s Amnesty Could Pay Their Debt to Society by Clearing Land Mines

Dec 29, 2016 | Gideon Lichfield, Quartz
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Colombia’s congress today passed an amnesty law for FARC rebels and Colombian soldiers who committed crimes during the country’s half-century-long civil war. It’s the first, and perhaps most crucial, of several laws entailed by the peace accord that the government and the FARC signed last month.