Colombia's long war with the FARC

Leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) patrol a roadway near to San Vicente de Caguan, January 1999.

Two members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) take up positions in trenches around a heavily-fortified rebel camp in the southern Caqueta province, December 1998.

Two civilians of the town of Dolores are ordered by FARC guerrillas to search a Colombian policeman's clothes for concealed weapons during a siege of the town in Colombia's central Tolima province, November 1999. A fellow wounded policeman lies in the ba

FARC guerrillas take hostage three police captured during an attack in the town of Dolores, November 1997. The captured police were released to the press some hours later.

A dead civilian lies in the road as Red Cross workers run for protection after an attack in Guayabetal, January 2000.

FARC rebels stand guard during a roadblock after they attacked Silvia town in Cauca province, May 1999.

A FARC rebel looks at a photo of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a temporary rebel headquarters in San Vicente del Caguan, October 1999.

46 Colombian police held prisoner by FARC rebels huddle in a boat as they are escorted by guerrillas from behind, near the end of a two-day river journey on their way to being freed in a unilateral release, June 2001.

Friends of Andres Felipe Perez look at his coffin during his funeral in Buga's police headquarters, December 2001. Andres Felipe, a Colombian boy whose deathbed plea to see his father, kidnapped by FARC rebels, before dying of cancer touched the war-wear

FARC rebels march through a guerrilla camp deep in the jungles of southern Colombia, June 2001.

Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician kidnapped in February 2002, is seen in a video released by FARC in 2007.

Colombian police search for the body of their colleague who was killed by a car bomb at a police station in Villa Rica, February 2012.

A Colombian soldier looks at the bodies of FARC rebels killed in combat in La Plata, Huila province, July 2002.

Colombian police and peasants look at a truck burned by FARC rebels in Dagua, Valle province, April 2003.

A FARC fighter arriving at the camp where they prepare for an upcoming congress ratifying a peace deal with the government, near El Diamante in Yari Plains, Colombia, September 16, 2016.