05 November 2010

COLOMBIA: Dutch FARC Rebel Denies Being Held Against Will.

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     Tanja Nijmeier, 32, the Dutch woman who joined FARC guerrillas but later wrote of her disillusionment in a diary found in 2007, is seen in a new video pledging allegiance to the rebels.
    "Just come and try to 'free' me and we'll receive you here with AKs, with .50 (caliber machine-guns), with mines, with mortars, with everything," she told Colombian journalist Jorge Botero in August.
    Nijmeir says she'll stay with the FARC "until victory or death and there's no going back."