Ex- Colombia rebels take responsibility for 2002 massacre

Six former members of the Revolutiomary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a rebel group, has taken responsibility for a massacre in Colombia in 2002 in which some 120 people were killed.

The country's post-conflict tribunal Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) disclosed this on Wednesday.

The former guerrilla organisation has repeatedly apologised for the massacre that left at least 120 people dead in the town of Bellavista in Bojaya municipality in May 2002.

But for the first time, six ex-members are willing to take responsibility before the judiciary in a move that the Colombian newspaper El Espectador called "unprecedented."

The attack was one of the most serious in more than 50 years of armed conflict between armed forces, left-wing guerrilla groups and right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia.

The conflict left more than 260,000 people dead since 1958, according to the governmental National Centre for Historical Memory.

Then-president Juan Manuel Santos signed a historic peace deal with FARC in 2016, ending the 52-year conflict.

About 7,000 fighters were demobilized and FARC became a political party.

More than seven million people were displaced in the decades-long conflict.