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		</div><p>Colombia&#8217;s president has said he will donate more than €887,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize money to the victims of Colombia&#8217;s 50-year conflict.</p>
<p>Juan Manuel Santos made the announcement during a visit with his family and top government officials to an impoverished town in western Colombia where dozens of people were killed while stranded in a church during an intense battle between left-wing rebels and far-right militias.</p>
<p>He promised the residents of Bojaya that he would not give up on securing peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia despite voters&#8217; rejection of a deal with the guerrillas in a referendum a week ago.</p>
<p>More than 96% of residents of Bojaya voted for the peace deal.</p>
<p>&#8220;You symbolise the suffering of the victims of 52 years of war and are at the centre of the solution to this conflict,&#8221; a visibly-moved Mr Santos told the crowd. &#8220;The victims have taught me that the capacity to forgive can overcome hatred and rancour.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of the 81 Colombian districts hardest-hit by the conflict, 67 voted for the peace deal, according to the Bogota-based Peace and Reconciliation Foundation.</p>
<p>Mr Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday less than a week after the peace accord was shot down in a vote that even surprised government opponents.</p>
<p>Polls taken before the referendum showed the &#8220;yes&#8221; vote winning by an almost two-to-one margin after Mr Santos and FARC leader Timochenko signed the 297-page accord in front of world leaders six days earlier.</p>
<p>During his visit to Bojaya, Mr Santos attended a mass at the church rebuilt following the mortar attack launched by the Farc. Residents gave him a replica of the Christ statue mutilated during the attack, a gift the president said he values as much as the Nobel Prize and which encourages him to find a way to implement the peace accord.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to falter a single minute. I&#8217;m not going to give up a single second&#8221; in the search for peace, he said.</p>
<p>Mr Santos said the donated money would be channelled to infrastructure projects in conflict areas and to victims&#8217; groups.</p>
<p>Farc leaders have twice visited Bojaya to ask forgiveness and discuss with community leaders actions to help the town rebuild.</p>
<p>The Nobel Peace Prize carries an eight million-kronor (€830,000) award. It will be awarded in Oslo, Norway, on December 10.</p>
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