Video: The final days of Colombia’s FARC guerilla
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After waging a 52-year-long insurgency against the authorities in Bogota, Colombia’s FARC guerilla agreed to finally end the bloody conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions. Under the deal, the former rebels have vowed to lay down their arms and instead fight their cause as a political party. But how easily can the 7,000 FARC members adjust to this new way of life? Our reporter ventured into the Colombian jungle to find out.
Columbia's civil war has been one of the longest in modern times and so the peace deal struck between its government and the FARC guerilla marked an historic event. But how do you go from war to peace overnight? And how do you become an ordinary citizen when all you know is the life of a guerilla fighter?
Our correspondent, Pascale Mariani, travelled deep into Colombia’s jungle to meet some of the men and women who have been fighting for FARC’s Front 57 unit. For decades, they have sacrificed everything they have to serve the Marxist rebel group’s cause: their lives, their families and even their own free will. So what happens when they no longer have anything to sacrifice for? How will they be able to reconstruct a life mostly spent in the war trench?
>>On France 24, also watch our documentary: "Caught in the crossfire in Colombia"
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