Colombia: Last FARC Unit Reaches Demobilization Camps

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - The last active unit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has arrived in one of the many Transition Zones, or demobilization camps, established throughout the country where they will turn over their weapons and begin the transition to civilian life.

The unit, comprised of some 300 rebels, arrived at the demobilization camp, one of 26 nationwide, near the town of La Montañita in the lush Caquetá Department in the south of the country.

Nearly 7,000 rebels have arrived at the demobilization camps in recent weeks where they are expected to stay until June 1 when the next phase of the process begins. They have arrived in groups by boat, bus and on foot from their encampments in the lush jungles of Colombia in treks that lasted several days.

Once they arrived, they were expected to have found common spaces constructed by the national...