On Monday February 4th, there were marches in Colombia and around the rest of the world protesting the FARC and their actions. The past 10 year have been filled with kidnappings and other actions that have been done by the FARC. They kidnap Colombians and foreigners in order to gain leverage in Colombia'c civil war which has been going on for the last 40 years.
The marches that took place were an accumilation of Colombian's discontent with the sitatuation. People took to the streets wearing white and bearing the Colombian flag while singing the national anthem. Marches on smaller scales have happened before but not to this extent and not in countries outside Colombia.
The interesting thing is that this whole day was started on Facebook. This just goes to show how an social networking site can have some positive consequences.
This is the group Un millón de voces contra las Farc - Colombia
-- Brigitte
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4918B7D1-D4FB-494C-B936-098794773E9E.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/americas/index.html
http://www.eltiempo.com/
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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