Colombia: Death of FARC-held hostages (pub. Aug. 5, 2007)
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Officials from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), Colombia’s largest leftist guerrilla organisation, on July 26, 2007, offered to release the bodies of 11 provincial legislators who were killed on June 18 at the rebel jungle camp in which they had been held hostage since 2002. In a statement released on July 10 FARC officials admitted that they had “failed” to “take proper care” of the 11 legislators, whilst FARC spokesperson Raul Reyes on July 23 suggested that the government was using “foreign mercenaries” to participate in attempts to rescue rebel-held hostages.
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