Colombian rebel unit says it will not disarm under peace deal

A unit of Colombia's FARC rebel bunch said it won't set down arms or retire under a potential peace manage the legislature, the principal open indication of resistance to an agreement from inside the revolutionary positions that may set back endeavors to end five many years of war.

The announcement by the Armando Rios First Front, a 200-in number guerrilla unit in the southeastern wilderness region of Guaviare, comes about two weeks after pioneers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the administration reported a truce bargain at their over three-year-old peace talks.

"We have chosen not to retire, we will proceed with the battle for the taking of force by the general population for the general population, free of the choice taken by whatever remains of the individuals from the association," the unit said in an announcement on Wednesday.

The First Front, which broadly held ex-presidential competitor Ingrid Betancourt and three American temporary workers prisoner, said the arrangements being come to at talks in Cuba won't take care of the social and monetary issues which initially inspired the Marxist gathering to go to the mattresses in 1964.

President Juan Manuel Santos has said the peace talks, went for consummation a contention which has killed more than 220,000 and dislodged millions, may close as right on time as this month. Any arrangement will be put to Colombians for endorsement in a plebiscite vote.

The First Front, which is known not connections to the medication exchange, said it would regard any FARC rebels who consent to peace, however approached different units to unite to proceed with the battle.

"We welcome all guerrillas and civilian army who are not in concurrence with deactivation and the setting down of FARC weapons to unite and proceed joined as an association," the announcement said.

Santos said before on Wednesday that any FARC unit that does not hold fast to a peace understanding would proceed at war and be killed or imprisoned.

"Anybody with questions, best abandon them aside and join the peace accord, since it's the last open door they will need to change their lives, in light of the fact that else they will wind up, I guarantee you, in a grave or prison," Santos said.

FARC pioneers arranging in Havana did not promptly react to the choice by the breakaway unit, yet security sources said different units could likewise dismiss a peace understanding, and toss the procedure into uncertainty.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Bill Rigby)

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