November 24 in History
2016 – The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC–EP and FARC), a guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964, initially signed a ceasefire accord with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, in Havana in June 2016. The accord, though seen as an historic step to ending the war that had gone on for fifty years, failed to pass a national referendum on October the same year, with 50.24% voting against it, leading to the Colombian government and the FARC signing a revised peace deal on this day in 2016, which the Colombian Congress approved on November 30. On June 27, 2017 FARC ceased to be an armed group, disarming itself and handing over its weapons to the United Nations. One month later, FARC announced its reformation as a legal political party, the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, in accordance with the terms of the peace deal.
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Photo Caption – Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the crowd at the Colombian peace ceremony in Cartagena where Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Timoleón Jiménez signed a peace accord on September 26, 2016 –US State Department