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| Subject: Colombians tell FARC: 'Enough's enough' Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:00 am | |
| In a march organized on Facebook, hundreds of thousands protested against the leftist rebel group Monday.
Bogotá, Colombia - From above, they looked like a white river flowing through the streets of Colombia's capital. They wore white T-shirts that read: "Yo Soy Colombia (I am Colombia). Stop the kidnappings, the lies, the murders…. No more FARC."
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians protested Monday against the violence and kidnappings of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Waving national flags and chanting "free them now," protesters demanded the release of more than 700 hostages held by the leftist rebel group, which has been fighting Colombia's government for decades.
The protest, dubbed "A Million Voices Against the FARC," was started last month by three young people on Facebook, the social-networking website. It grew in just a few weeks and, on Monday, became the largest public demonstration against FARC in Colombia's history. Thousands more joined the march in cities such as Madrid; New York; Caracas, Venezuela; Stockholm; and Tokyo.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0206/p25s01-woam.html |
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