The streets of Bogota and other major cities in the world were filled on Monday with hundreds of demonstrators protesting against FARC guerillas, asking the release of the hostages held for years in their jungle camps.

With flags and white T-shirts saying “No more FARC” and “No more kidnapping,” demonstrators from Bogota got out of their offices and schools to join the protest.

Marches were held in other major cities in the country as well as in other 125 capitals around the world.

The protest comes a day after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said that it will release three former lawmakers that were kidnapped seven years ago.

The videos recently released by the government from the FARC showing the hostages in chains have enraged the people. They were meant to trigger the mobilization of the crowds. The FARC is considered a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union and Columbia.

Jaime Martinez, a student clothed in a Colombian flag and having "Peace" painted on his face, said: "No more FARC, we don't want any more FARC, young people have to say no to the FARC and tell them to stop their violence," Reuters reports.

President Alvaro Uribe said at a private television about the massive turn out: “Today the citizens have more faith in the state, they have more faith in the army.”

According to Samuel Rojas, mayor of Bogota, over 1.2 million people filled the Bolivar square of Colombia’s capital.

Medellin and Cali, two major cities in Colombia, half a million people demonstrated on the streets.

Similar protests were organized by hundreds Colombian embassies in Japan, United States, Canada, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela. 

London's Trafalgar Square was taken by storm by 3,000 people and also Rome and Madrid were filled with demonstrators.

Although 200 people turned at the march in Paris, the families of Ingrid Betancourt, a French Colombian hostage, condemned the protest.

Astrid Betancourt, Ingrid’s sister, said: “We condemn this manipulation. It's propaganda, which while pretending to be against the FARC is completely organized by the government,” AFP informs.

Apparently the idea of the protest came from a campaign started by some students on Facebook, calling their protest “Million Voices Against the FARC.”

FARC is accused of drug trafficking and for taking over 750 people as hostages.

Among the hostages there are 43 high-profile hostages, like Betancourt and three Americans. The FARC says that they will trade them for 500 rebels from Colombian prisons. It also wants for the government to form a zone in the southwest of the country, of the size of New York City, military free. Uribe refused such a thing, but instead proposed a smaller zone under international surveillance.

The rebels said they will release Gloria Polanco, Luis Eladio Perez and Orlando Beltran, former lawmakers to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez who said that he was ready to receive them.