Insurgent Alliance Centres Colombian Week
BOGOTA - The alliance of the two main
Colombian insurgent groups aimed at firmly
confronting the current government of
President Alvaro Uribe centered news reports
in the week concluding Saturday.
The leaders of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National
Liberation Army (ELN) issued a joint
communiqué to announce their union and the
cessation of mutual hostilities.
In the document made public this week, both
forces maintain that their only enemy is
"the US imperialism and its oligarchic
lackeys", and vow to use all their
combative, revolutionary energy against
them.
Also this week, Liberal Senator Piedad
Cordoba denounced the lack of Colombian
government guarantees to start operations to
release two people held by the guerrilla.
Cordoba said that the government of
President Uribe has yet to establish
guarantees to start the release of
non-commissioned officer Pablo Emilio
Moncayo and soldier Josue Daniel Calvo,
besides the handing over of remains of Maj.
Julian Ernesto Guevara to his family.
Cordoba said that efforts for the unilateral
handing over of the people held by FARC and
of the remains of the Major will take at
least another month. Her remarks contradict
those of Uribe's, who said on Monday that
government guarantees were in place for the
release of these people.
At least 2,165 minors have died in Colombia
so far this year, 881 of them killed and
another 175 committed suicide, according to
Police reports.
The source added that 16,859 minors were
victims of a crime, 8,891 of them girls. |
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