BOGOTA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Ivan Marquez, former chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, announced Thursday that he will take up arms again along with other former leaders.
Marquez said in a video that the Colombian government has failed to comply with the agreements in the peace deal and hundreds of insurgents were demobilized.
"We announce to the world that the second Marquetalia (birthplace of the FARC in central Colombia) has begun under the protection of the universal right that assists all the peoples of the world to rise in arms against oppression," he said.
Marquez read the statement in the company of former FARC leaders Jesus Santrich and Hernan Dario Velasquez, among others, who were armed in the video.
