Article 5FF86 Two notorious Colombian warlords to face off in truth commission hearing

Two notorious Colombian warlords to face off in truth commission hearing

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Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
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Rodrigo Londono led the leftwing Farc guerrillas, while Salvatore Mancuso was head of a rightwing death squad during the civil war

Two of Colombia's most notorious warlords will appear together before a truth commission on Thursday, in the latest move to shed light on crimes committed during decades of bloody civil war.

Rodrigo Londono, better known by his wartime alias Timochenko, once led the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), in a bloody struggle against the Colombian state that left 260,000 dead.

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