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| Colombia's FARC Rebels to Free two Captives to Piedad Cordoba |
| 2009-09-28 |
| (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's biggest guerrilla group pledged to release two of its military captives in an effort to push the government to release jailed rebels. Military Corporal Pablo Emilio Moncayo, held about 12 years, and Private Jose Daniel Calvo, kidnapped five months ago, will be handed over to opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a statement published on Anncol, a news agency sympathetic to the drug- funded group, known as the FARC. The statement, signed by the FARC's secretariat and dated Sept. 22 from the mountains of Colombia, said the unilateral release demonstrates the group's commitment to move ahead with a swap of more than 20 captives for some 500 jailed FARC fighters. The FARC will also return the remains of Major Julian Ernesto Guevara, who died of an unidentified tropical disease while in captivity. |
| Posted by:Fred |