Two million protest against Colombian rebels: officials

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BOGOTA (AFP) — More than two million Colombians demonstrated worldwide Monday against the FARC Marxist rebels, according to official figures, demanding the freeing of hostages and an end to decades of violence.

Wearing white shirts saying "No more FARC" and "No more kidnapping," demonstrators brought normal business in Colombia to a virtual standstill as they flooded the streets of its main cities and 125 capitals around the world.

"I feel the pain of the families of the hostages rotting in the jungle ... and I want all the nations of the world to realize that the FARC is not Colombia," one demonstrator, Myriam Forero, told AFP in Bogota.

They were the largest rallies ever organized against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), coming a day...