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Can Colombia Reintegrate The FARC?

27/07/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: Can Colombia Reintegrate The FARC?

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Inquiry: Can Colombia Reintegrate The FARC?

Ex-fighter Boris Forero describes his journey from left wing guerrilla to psychologist

Ex-fighter Boris Forero describes his journey from left wing guerrilla to psychologist and his work helping others who have left the jungle camps to reintegrate into society.

Former fighter Boris Forero describes being brought up in a Communist household and joining the FARC when he was 19. He spent several years in the jungle with the guerrillas, who have fought a 50-year war with the Colombian government. Today he works with a government organisation that helps former fighters reintegrate into Colombian society. He says that it will be easier for those expected to lay down their arms in the coming months to reintegrate as a group than for those who did so individually.

Presenter: Helena Merriman

(Photo: Fighters of the Front 53, a faction of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla movement, in Los Alpes, 150 Km southeast of Bogota. Credit to: Getty Images)

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