A Colombian court on Tuesday held seven leaders of the defunct Colombian guerrilla army FARC responsible for the kidnappings of tens of thousands of people during the group's half-century of war with the state.

The transitional court, which was set up under a landmark 2016 peace agreement signed by FARC, spared the seven prison time, ordering them instead to make reparations by working towards reconciliation.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known by its Spanish acronym JEP, took more than seven years to issue its findings against the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist group that waged a five-decade campaign of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings.

It found seven FARC commanders, including its last leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, alias Timoc

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