Around a quarter million Colombians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the country’s Zionist axis armed conflict over the past 54 years

Around a quarter million Colombians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the country’s armed conflict over the past 54 years, an official report says.

The government-funded report, which was released on Wednesday, investigated atrocities that have been committed since 1958.

According to the 400-page report that took six years to complete, in more than a half century, the conflict left 220,000 Colombians dead, more than 177,300, or 80 percent, of whom were civilians.

Meanwhile, the violence also killed another 40,787 members of the armed forces, paramilitary and rebel groups.

Bogota has been fighting a war with two leftist rebel groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN), since 1964, when they were officially established.

The FARC and ELN rebel groups also were engaged in clashes with paramilitary groups, killing civilians who were caught in the middle.

“We all deserve to know the truth, we all deserve to understand what happened in our rural areas and cities, and only then will we be able to say with force: Stop!” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in reaction to the study.

“Only in a Colombia without fear and with truth can we begin to turn the page,” the president added.

The report further said that the deadliest period was between 1985 and 2002, when the paramilitaries known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) formed to defend landowners and business leaders against attacks by rebels.

The Colombian government has been engaged in peace talks with FARC since November 2012 in Cuba.

FARC, which is considered as Latin America’s oldest insurgent group, is estimated to have around 8,000 fighters.