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  • 12
    Nov
    2012
    6:50pm, EST

    FARC rebels injure 25 people, damage more than 60 homes in Colombia

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A boy retrieves his bicycle from the rubble on Nov. 12 after his house was destroyed in an attack by the FARC rebels on a police station in the town of Suarez, in Colombia's Cauca state.

    Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, currently in peace talks with Colombia's government, attacked a police station with homemade explosives, leaving 25 people injured, authorities said on Monday. More than 60 homes were damaged in the explosions, police Colonel Ricardo Alarcon said. Colombia's government and the FARC began talks in Oslo on Oct. 18 aimed at ending a half century of hostilities. However, no cease fire has been declared.

    --Agence France-Presse

    Juan Bautista Diaz / AP

    Residents look at a home that authorities say was damaged by homemade grenades, allegedly thrown by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in Suarez, in Colombia's southern state of Cauca, on Nov. 12.

    Juan Bautista Diaz / AP

    A police officer, left, carries the remains of a homemade grenade allegedly thrown by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, near a police station in Suarez in Colombia's southern state of Cauca, Nov. 12.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A man stands in the middle of the rubble on Nov. 12 after an attack by FARC rebels on a police station destroyed his house, in the town of Suarez, in Colombia's Cauca state.

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    3 comments

    If that's a homemade grenade I'd hate to see what they use for bullets.

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  • 17
    Jul
    2012
    4:06pm, EDT

    Nasa Indians overpower soldiers in Colombia

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    Nasa Indians charge a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17. Dozens of Indians attacked half a dozen soldiers guarding communication towers on the outskirts of the town.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Indigenous natives drag Colombian army sergeant Rodrigo Garcia out of his military post on Mount Berlin in Toribioon July 17, 2012.

    William Fernando Martinez / AP

    Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    A soldier tries to stop another from shooting in the air.

    Christian Escobar Mora / EPA

    A soldier is attacked by indigenous trying to evict them from a military control base in El Alto del Berlin mountain in Toribio, Cauca, Colombia

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Army sergeant Rodrigo Garcia leaves with tears in his eyes after he was forced out of his military post on Mount Berlin on July 17, 2012.

    Nasa Indians near Toribio in southern Colombia have demanded security forces and leftist rebels stay off their land. Local people decided to expel a group of soldiers from the area after clashes resulted in eight people being wounded and several houses damaged, Agence France Presse reports. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Colombians dismantle police post in protest at FARC clashes

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    34 comments

    if indians in the U.S. did this the federal govt. would go in and massacure them, so that corporate could steal THEIR, coal, gold , copper, oil! the only thing left would be the LEAD in their bellies! go indians!

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  • 10
    Jul
    2012
    6:45am, EDT

    EPA

    Colombians dismantle police post in protest at FARC clashes

    Indigenous people from Nasa disassemble a police trench in Toribio, Cauca state, Colombia, on July 9 2012. Indigenous populations have been protesting against clashes between Colombian police and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and demanding peace in their territory.

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    The Nasa people are showing their determination to keep their territory free of conflict. The Colombian government under Santos should be listening to them. The civil war will not end by flooding the indigenous territories with more than 2000 soldiers. It is actually endangering the local communitie …

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  • 2
    Apr
    2012
    8:04pm, EDT

    Mauricio Duenas / EPA

    Colombian police sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso Monzalve (L) and army sergeant Luis Alfredo Moreno (2-R) wave after being released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and landing with a humanitarian commision at the airport of Villavicencio, Colombia.

    Colombian rebels free 10 captives held more than a decade

    Reuters reports:

    BOGOTA — Colombia's FARC rebels on Monday freed 10 members of the armed forces held hostage in jungle prison camps for more than a decade, the last of a group of captives the drug-funded group has held as bargaining chips to pressure the government.

    The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia released four soldiers and six police officials to a humanitarian mission led by the International Red Cross.

    "This operation in a single day allowed ten families to be reunited after being apart for so many years," said Jordi Raich, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation.

    Full story.

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    6:40pm, EST

    Bomb kills 5, wounds 40 in Colombia

    Victor Manuel Correa / AP

    Residents and police officers rush to the site where a bomb exploded outside a police station in Tumaco on Colombia's southern Pacific coast on Feb. 1.

    A bomb exploded outside a police station in the Pacific port city of Tumaco just as lunch hour ended Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 40, authorities said.

    Gen. Rodolfo Palomino, the national police director of citizen security, blamed the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for the attack, though Tumaco's mayor, Victor Gallo, refrained from assigning blame.

    -- The Associated Press contributed to this post

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  • 17
    Aug
    2011
    4:56pm, EDT

    Students in Colombia 'duck and cover' in drill to avoid FARC gunfire

    By Rich Shulman

    We're seeing a lot of first day of school photos today. These are some of the most unusual. It reminds me of the "duck and cover" drills (photo, bottom) in the United States in the 1950s.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Students of a primary school take shelter under their desks in the schoolroom during a drill, in Toribio, department of Cauca, Colombia on July 25. The school is located near the heavily fortified local police station and has 600 students who have to take cover every time the FARC guerrillas attack and the bullets start flying by. Therefore the teachers are forced to give them also survival lessons as an extracurricular subject.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    Students of a primary school abandon their schoolrooms to take refuge in a safe place during a drill, in Toribio, department of Cauca, Colombia on July 25.

    Luis Robayo / AFP - Getty Images

    A bullet hole on a wall of a primary school in Toribio, department of Cauca, Colombia on July 25.

    Dan Grossi / AP

    In this Nov. 21, 1951 file picture, sixth grade students crouch under or beside their desks along with their teacher, Vincent M. Bohan, left, as they act out a scene from the Federal Civil Defense administration film "Duck and Cover" at Public School 152 in the Queens borough of New York City. Even before the March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that led to the current Japanese nuclear crisis, Americans were bombarded with contradictory images and messages that frighten even when they try to reassure. It started with the awesome and deadly mushroom cloud rising from the atomic bomb, which led to fallout shelters and school duck-and-cover drill.

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  • 8
    Dec
    2010
    2:40pm, EST

    Christian Escobar Mora / AP

    A police officer organizes seized bullet cartridges as they are displayed to the press at the regional police headquarters in Cali, southern Colombia, Wednesday Dec. 8. Police say they seized more than ten thousand rifle cartridges and hundreds of grenades that belonged to rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC

    Colombian police seize FARC ammunition

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