From Defense Technology News:
(NSI News Source Info) December 25, 2008: Surrenders of rebel fighters are up seven percent over last year. For the year so far, 3,352 rebels have surrendered. Some 88 percent were from FARC, the largest leftist rebel group in the country.
Most of the rest came from the second largest leftist rebel outfit, the ELN. Since 2002, when offensive operations against the various rebel outfits began, nearly 18,000 have surrendered.
Many more have accepted disarmament and amnesty deals.
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My Comment: This war has been going on for decades .... it will take more than a few thousand surrendering to end this conflict.