Eight youths left FARC rebel camps in Colombia on Saturday, as the insurgents began relocating children and teenagers as part of a historic peace agreement, the Red Cross said Saturday. The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest rebel group, concluded a final peace accord last month to end a 52-year war. The hard-fought agreement took nearly four years of negotiations…
In peace step, children leave rebel camps in Colombia
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