Colombia's President, Juan Manuel Santos (L) sits with Stephen Adler (R) Editor-in-Chief of Reuters, during a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker interview at the company's headquarters in New York, September 30, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colombia cannot punish Marxist guerrillas for war crimes as severely as some would like if the country wants a peace deal to end a 50-year conflict that has killed nearly a quarter million people, President Juan Manuel Santos told Reuters on Wednesday.
In an interview Santos said he believes the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will stick to their agreement to reach an accord within six months, but if the rebels break their word the centre-right leader would not hesitate to return to the battlefield.
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