Colombia's Ex-Rebels Remove Mines They Left during War

Oct 29, 2019 | Florence Panoussian, International Business Times
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A grenade blew off the hands of onetime FARC guerrilla Edwin Correa, but he only surrendered his rifle once a peace deal was struck nearly three years ago. Since then, the former bomb expert has joined a different sort of fighting unit -- one dedicated to removing the land mines in Colombia's countryside that he once helped to plant.