FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (R), better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, speaks to a man during a news conference after his meeting with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and Cuba's President Raul Castro in Havana September 23, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombians uprooted from their homes, abducted or bereaved in the country's five-decade civil war have reacted with hostility or grudging acceptance to a breakthrough agreement between the government and FARC rebels on justice for war crimes.
President Juan Manuel Santos, in an interview with Reuters, said he had to give more ground on the thorny issue of justice than many Colombians would like, to ensure that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would lay down their weapons and end the conflict.
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