Bogota, August 6 (RHC)-- Ex-President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe began the official campaign against the peace agreement between the government and the FARC rebels. Uribe said that way back "we must vote 'No' to the illegitimate referendum," said Uribe. "To approve the illegitimate referendum would mean accepting impunity... instead of deterring crime it makes it bigger and sets an example for more and new violence."

The government of Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army, better known as FARC -EP, have signed an agreement to push ahead with peace after years of negotiations to end half a century of internal armed conflict.

After more than three years of peace talks that have taken place in Havana, Cuba, the agreement could bring an end to a conflict that has claimed some 220,000 lives and displaced more than six million people.