BOGOTA, October 11th 2016 : Colombian President Juan Manuel Santosannounced Sunday that he would donate his $925,000 in Nobel Peace Prize money to victims of the conflict that has roiled his country for half a century.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by his wife and children, as well as several members of his cabinet, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to broker a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said the funds would go toward “projects, foundations or programs that deal with victims and reconciliation.”<\/p>\n
“We’re going to persevere, we will persist, persist, persist and persist until we implement the agreement that was signed” with the FARC guerrillas, Santossaid adding: “if we have to make adjustments to what we have already agreed, we will make those adjustments.”<\/p>\n
The Colombia leader was speaking after a religious ceremony to dozens of victims of the armed conflict, where 79 people were killed in 2002 when FARC fighters threw an explosive device at a church where villagers were sheltering from fighting between guerrillas and paramilitary forces.<\/p>\n
Colombia’s five-decade conflict has killed more than 260,000 people, left 45,000 missing and forced nearly seven million to flee their homes.<\/p>\n
Under the peace deal, the FARC was to relaunch as a political party. But rightwing hardliners led a campaign against the accord, arguing it offered the rebels impunity for massacres, kidnappings and other crimes committed during the conflict.<\/p>\n
In a referendum vote a week ago, Colombian voters narrowly defeated the peace deal.The Nobel Peace Prize is a gold medal, a diploma and a check for eight million Swedish kronor (around $925,000), which will be presented at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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