He said that the gesture by Farc commander-in chief Timochenko during his speech of showing remorse for "all the pain we may have caused" in the war was a victory for the Farc's victims.
"In the name of the Farc I ask sincere forgiveness to all the victims of the conflict and for all the pain we may have caused in this war," he said to resounding applause from the audience.
Israel asserted that most of the damage had been caused in the two wars and during the artillery duels in between.
In a nutshell: the second world war was caused in part by Britain's weakness; the war was not the cause of Britain's weakness.
That's unjustifiable when compared to the massive non-military needs facing this country, including strangling unemployment and economic stagnation (caused in part by massive war spending).
Local officials and humanitarian workers began to inspect the latest damage the war had caused in the overcrowded enclave, with assessments indicating earlier estimates may have been optimistic.
This agglomeration, caused in large part by the war, further exacerbates the health scenario, favouring the persistence of communicable diseases.
This is a figure much higher than, for example, the mortality caused in Europe by two world wars, and is certainly enough to drive evolution.
But how much more than sad if the fit of pique thrown when recognition is denied puts your country in turmoil for 20 years, causing (in the civil wars which followed his regime) the deaths of millions.
Japan in the thirties was undergoing a severe social and economic crisis, as a result both of the Great Depression and of the drain in resources caused by the war in China.
