Colombia Farc: Former rebels charged with war crimes

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image captionA woman holds a T-shirt reading "Victim of the Farc" during a protest in Bogota in 2018
A special court in Colombia has charged eight commanders of the former Farc rebel group with war crimes during the country's decades-long armed conflict.
They are accused of kidnapping thousands of people, and torturing and killing some of them.
It is the first major result for the court set up after the 2016 peace deal between the government and the Farc.
The group used kidnappings to fund its war against the state and to push for the release of its own personnel.

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