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Subject: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: Henk on 09/10/07 at 5:05 pm
BOGOTA, Colombia: A young Dutch woman, wearing combat fatigues and trekking through the jungle, has appeared in a video broadcast on local television pleading with family members to forgive her for joining Colombia's largest rebel group.
The undated video of the self-declared rebel "Eillen" is the latest chapter in a saga that for the past week has captivated Colombians unaccustomed to seeing foreigners take up arms in its bloody, half-century civil conflict.
"Mother will explain why I wasn't able to communicate with you all," Eillen, speaking to relatives in Dutch, said in the video first broadcast Friday night on RCN television. "I know for mom and dad this was a very difficult period."
RCN provided a translation of the video into Spanish.
Eillen's existence was revealed this week when El Tiempo newspaper printed what it said were excerpts from the Dutch woman's handwritten diary, which was captured by the army in a recent raid on a guerrilla camp.
Read full article here.
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/10/07 at 5:17 pm
You might have heard of a gal named Patricia Hearst!
::)
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: Henk on 09/11/07 at 12:12 am
You might have heard of a gal named Patricia Hearst!
::)
Yes I have, and I can see the similarities.
Still...wasn't Hearst kidnapped before she joined? This young woman here joined voluntarily...
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: philbo on 09/11/07 at 5:09 am
Is it just me that thinks she's out of her FARCing mind?
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: Henk on 09/11/07 at 12:48 pm
Is it just me that thinks she's out of her FARCing mind?
FARCing mad, I say... ;)
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/11/07 at 5:36 pm
Yes I have, and I can see the similarities.
Still...wasn't Hearst kidnapped before she joined? This young woman here joined voluntarily...
Is there evidence she joined before the release of the video? She might very well have, but under duress people say and do all kinds of surprising things.
Subject: Re: Young Dutch woman willingly joined FARC rebels
Written By: Henk on 09/12/07 at 12:10 am
Is there evidence she joined before the release of the video? She might very well have, but under duress people say and do all kinds of surprising things.
According to the newspaper article, she already joined in 2002...Her mother travelled to Colombia in 2005, to try and persuade her daughter to come back. The video is undated. There are 2006 entries to be found there, though.
My concern is: does the involvement of one foreigner make this an international conflict, instead of an internal affair?