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By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels blamed the Bogota government on Thursday for renewed violence in Latin America's longest war and declined to say whether they had broken their own ceasefire with an attack that killed 11 government soldiers a day earlier. President Juan Manuel Santos called it a deliberate attack while the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, said it was self-defence against encroaching government forces. In response, Santos ordered the resumption of bombing raids on FARC targets after he had halted air attacks in recognition of the FARC's unilateral truce, declared on Dec. 20. Despite the violence, two-year-old peace talks resumed on Thursday in Havana, where Colombian government officials and FARC commanders are trying to negotiate an end to a war that has killed 220,000 and displaced millions since 1964.