And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:29:02 -0400
From: LISN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere
Subject: Colombia: Army squad searches for FARC leader
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:00:58 -0400
From: Amazon Coalition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Miami Herald
Posted at 8:32 a.m. EDT Monday, April 12, 1999
Army Squad Searches for FARC Leader Linked
to Executions of US Nationals
BOGOTA, April 12 -- (AFP) -- The Colombian Armed Forces has
dispatched an elite squad to the northeast of the country to track down
leftist
rebel leader German Briceno, according to army sources.
The squad, comprising members of the army, navy and air force, is
scouring
the area on the Venezuelan border for the guerilla leader from the
Revolutionarily Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a spokesman for the
Army's 18th brigade told radio stations Sunday.
Colombian authorities believe Briceno, who also goes by the alias
Grannobles,
is responsible for the murder of three US activists in March.
The three, Terence Freitas, 24, Laheenae Gay, 39, and Ingrid
Washinawatock, 41, who were working with Andean natives, were
kidnapped by FARC rebels on February 25.
Their bodies, riddled with bullets and bearing signs of torture, were
found
March 4 just inside Venezuela's border with Colombia.
The FARC insists that the murders were a ``grave mistake'' and has
pledged
to punish a lower-ranking officer for the atrocity.
FARC chief Manuel Marulanda said Friday he would announce the sentence
to be handed down to Commander Gildardo in the next two months.
But Colombia's military high command and US authorities insists that
Grannobles, brother of the second-highest ranking FARC commander, is
responsible for the brutal murders.
Washington, which called on Bogota to arrest and extradite the culprits
to the
United States, suspended peace contacts with the insurgents that it
established
in Costa Rica in December 1998 in the wake of the crime.
The FARC leadership has steadfastly refused to hand over the culprits,
saying
they will be dealt with by revolutionary justice.
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