Colombia's government and Marxist FARC guerrillas scrambled on October 3, 2016 to revive a plan to end their 52-year war after voters rejected the hard-negotiated deal as too lenient on the rebels in a shock referendum result that plunged the nation into uncertainty.
Colombians voted 50.21% to 49.78% against the accord. The No' camp won by about 54,000 votes, or less than half a percentage point. Any re-negotiated peace accord now seems to depend on whether the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could accept some tougher sanctions against them.
Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force had signed a historic peace accord with the government on September 26 to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.
After four years of peace talks in Cuba, President Juan Manuel Santos, 65, and rebel leader Timochenko - the nom de guerre for 57-year-old Rodrigo Londono - warmly shook hands on Colombian soil for the first time and signed the accord with a pen made from a bullet casing.
Colombians voted 50.21% to 49.78% against the accord. The No' camp won by about 54,000 votes, or less than half a percentage point. Any re-negotiated peace accord now seems to depend on whether the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could accept some tougher sanctions against them.
Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force had signed a historic peace accord with the government on September 26 to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.
After four years of peace talks in Cuba, President Juan Manuel Santos, 65, and rebel leader Timochenko - the nom de guerre for 57-year-old Rodrigo Londono - warmly shook hands on Colombian soil for the first time and signed the accord with a pen made from a bullet casing.
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