Colombian Government and FARC Launched Peace Talk

Government of Colombia and Leftist FARC rebels formally launched peace talks in Norway on 17 October 2012 which aimed at ending nearly five decades of conflict that has claimed an estimated 600000 lives.

The peace talk was officially launched by government and the rebels in a hotel in Hurdal, a small town north of Oslo.
The core area of discussion focused on five main areas that is land reform, the rebels' future role in political life, a definitive end of hostilities, fighting the illegal drug trade and the situation of the victims.

FARC is Latin America's largest rebel group, founded in 1964 with 9,200 armed fighters is known by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. In the past several years FARC suffered the capture and killings of some of its top leaders, and its rank had been depleted to half of Militants what they were at their peak in the 1990s.

It was also earlier found that Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine via Venezuela, Panama and the Pacific. The FARC is on both the U.S. and EU lists of terrorist groups. Drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping-for-ransom are the FARC’s main means of financing its operations.