http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/colombia_farc Comments for "Pawns of war: the Colombian hostage crisis, Ana Carrigan " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/colombia_farc <p> &quot;Mr President, we, who are about to die, salute you.&quot; </p> <p> The message was delivered on 26 September 2007 to the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe. It came from a hostage who had been seized by the <em>Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia</em> (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia / Farc), with eleven other provincial deputies, in April 2002. By September 2006, the deputies had been held in a guerrilla camp in the Amazonian rainforest for four and half years, waiting, with diminishing hope, for the government and Farc to negotiate a prisoner exchange. Nine months later, eleven of the twelve deputies were dead. Among them the young deputy who had predicted his own and his companions&#39; fate with such chilling accuracy. They were killed in circumstances that remain unclear, and contested. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/colombia_farc" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/colombia_farc">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/institutions_government/colombia_farc#comment Ana Carrigan Creative Commons normal globalisation institutions &amp; government Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:41:02 +0000 35084 at http://www.opendemocracy.net