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		</div><p>Thousands of Colombians dressed in white poured into the streets to protest against terrorism after a car bombing at a Bogota police academy killed 21 people and left dozens more wounded.</p>
<p>Amid heavy security and loud chants of “down with the terrorists” and “no more violence”, the crowd marched to Plaza Bolivar on Sunday.</p>
<p>They were greeted by President Ivan Duque, who donned a green police cap for the victims of Thursday’s attack, the deadliest in 15 years in Colombia.</p>
<p>Young and elderly demonstrators alike spontaneously embraced a large number of the police officers lining the march route.</p>
<p><em>“We want you to know you’re not alone,”</em> said Jenny Buitrago, 32, who dressed her three young children as police officers in a show of solidarity.</p>
<p>Authorities have attributed Thursday’s bombing to the National Liberation Army (ELN) – the last major guerrilla group following a 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.</p>
<p>Mr Duque has asked Cuba to arrest 10 rebel commanders who had been living on the communist-governed island with his permission in a fading attempt to jump-start stalled peace talks.</p>
<p>Cuba, which condemned the bombing, has pushed back, saying it is obliged to follow the protocol signed by Mr Duque’s predecessor allowing the negotiators to leave the communist-run island in the event of a rupture in talks.</p>
<p>Sunday’s nationwide marches were promoted as a non-partisan show of unity against violence.</p>
<p>But the outraged people who showed up in Bogota shouted conservative, law and order slogans and showed little interest in preserving what was left of a peace process with the ELN that began in 2017 under the mediation of Cuba, Norway, Venezuela and Chile.</p>
<p>With the political fallout in the balance, authorities have been making steady progress in their investigation of the attack, which recalled some of the bloodiest chapters of Colombia’s recent past.</p>
<p>Within 24 hours of the attack, police arrested a man, Ricardo Carvajal, who they say showed up on intercepted phone calls boasting of having participated in the blast.</p>
<p>Authorities are investigating whether Carvajal is the unidentified man seen on security cameras descending from a 1993 Nissan pick-up less than 10 minutes before it exploded at the General Santander police academy loaded with 80kg of Pentolite.</p>
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