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Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by BurningFrog on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:00PM (#12370709)
This sounds like a peace agreement between two parties that will keep coexisting.

What you want is a victory.

Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by ivanca on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:46PM (#12370863)
I'm Colombian, and they want more than victory, they want more violence, that's why the propaganda against the agreement is lead by the infamous paramilitary-involved ex-president Alvaro Uribe.
Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by simonmd on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:00AM (#12370898)
Who is 'they' exactly? Expecting justice hardly makes me an 'Uribista'.
Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by ivanca on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:23AM (#12371264)
Violence is the only thing that will continue to go on if we keep asking for justice, so our children and grandchildren will die fighting wars we could have stop just because we hold that word in such high stem.
Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by ivanca on Sunday August 28, 2016 @03:31AM (#12375660)
And the worse is it all is that _their_ children will continue to kill ours for reasons they think justifiable, and despite being truth or not it will cost them all their lives.
Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by simonmd on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:08PM (#12370740)
Not equal parties. A legitimately constituted state with 50 million people vs. 17,000 guerillas. All countries have terrorism and 'coexist' with it. In the meantime their citizens can go about their business. That was the state of things when Santos took office and revived the FARC guerilla.
Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by ivanca on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:44PM (#12370855)
[Citation needed]

FARC had been taking heavy losses but there was no end in sight.

The state of business when Santos took government was hundreds of killings per month, which has been reduced in a 90% since the first agreements: http://colombiareports.com/how-the-farcs-failed-ceasefire-di...

If only the ones who are alive today thanks to the reduction of violence had a HN account, but they are the poor in the rural areas, not the computer scientists of La Javeriana.

Re:Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace by simonmd on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:59PM (#12370894)
If you stop your constitutional obligation to combat crime, OBVIOUSLY there will be fewer deaths in combat. That does not make it right.

And of course, in typical izquierdista fashion, you justify your arguments by turning it into a class warfare statement, even grouping me with computer scientists (I am not) from La Javeriana (fine private university, but I'm also not from there).