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Nailing a white flag to the ground and asking forgiveness for the massive kidnappings that caused pain to the residents and users of the Llano road, the Farc did this Thursday a symbolic act of repentance in the development of his pilgrimage march to Bogotá.
The flag was planted in Pipiral, a village 15 kilometers from Villavicencio, which witnessed the fierce combats waged by the FARC and the Army and which were recorded in the minds of the residents of this place.
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Someone recalled that in the most violent times, the television news captured the images of citizens and journalists crawling over the ditches of the road to protect themselves from bullets and grenades that exploded insistently.
They also remembered that March 24, 1998, when guerrillas from the 53rd front The FARC, commanded by Romaña, stationed themselves in Monterredondo and kidnapped more than 24 citizens, including six foreigners.
But this Thursday the story is different, about twenty ex-combatants from the areas of concentration of Uribe, Mesetas, Vista Hermosa (Meta) and San José del Guaviare with white flags, instead of rifles, asked for forgiveness.
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The spokesperson was led by Pastor Alape, delegate to the National Reincorporation Council for the FARC party who expressed “to the inhabitants of the Pipiral village we thank them immensely for opening the doors of the village to carry out this symbolic act in this retracing the steps of the war, the steps of suffering that also caused our actions ”.
And he added “our heartfelt appreciation to their generous hearts for allowing us to plant this white flag in their territory. To you who were so Affected by the violent din of war, we humbly ask you to forgive us for the fear, anguish, pain, human and material losses that we cause you by reducing your territory to a military battlefield ”.
The pilgrimage march of the signatories of the Peace Agreement began last Wednesday, October 21 in Mesetas (Meta), after the funeral of Juan de Jesús Monroy, better known as Albeiro Suárez, leader of the La Pista coexistence point, in Uribe (Meta), murdered in Uribe (Meta) with which they are looking for the murders to end and the points agreed in Havana respected.
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After the symbolic act in Pipiral, the signatories of the peace agreement returned to Villavicencio where they have been since last Friday and this Saturday 31 of In October they will return to Bogotá to meet other ex-combatants from other parts of the country to hold an event in the Plaza de Bolívar.
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