Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 21 de septiembre de 2020.
A history of how deeply ingrained the practice of kidnapping was for the FARC during the conflict.
September 21, 2020
El secuestro económico estuvo en el ADN de las Farc
Tag: Kidnapping
12 años de la Operación Jaque del Ejército: dos liberados comparten testimonio
Publicado por Semana el 2 de julio de 2020.
The 12th anniversary of the Colombian Army’s rescue of 15 hostages.
July 2, 2020
Secuestrados, desaparecidos y muertos: la historia de los comerciantes del Huila
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 22 de junio de 2020.
Relatives of people kidnapped by the FARC 20 years ago learn, through the transitional justice system, what happened to their loved ones.
June 22, 2020
June 14, 2020
The ELN releases four civilian hostages to a commission from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Human Rights Ombudsman (Defensoría), and the Catholic Church in rural Norte de Santander. The release comes two days after the guerrillas turn over two oil workers in Arauca. Colombia’s government claims that the ELN continues to hold 10 other hostages. Among them is Nubia Alejandra López Correa, an Army corporal abducted in Arauca on June 7.
June 14, 2020
Iván Duque dice que secuestros del ELN aumentaron en Colombia
Publicado por Semana el 8 de junio de 2020.
Reporting on a wave of ELN kidnappings in Arauca and Catatumbo.
June 8, 2020
Polémica por video de Timochenko en el habla de “retenciones” y no de secuestros de Farc
Publicado por Semana el 4 de junio de 2020.
Kidnap victims object strongly to FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño, in a JEP video, referring to kidnappings as “retentions.”
June 4, 2020
¿Qué posibilidades hay de un diálogo entre el Eln y el gobierno?
Publicado por El Espectador el 6 de abril de 2020.
An interview with the Colombian government’s high commissioner for peace, Miguel Ceballos, after the ELN’s declaration of a ceasefire due to the COVID-19 emergency.
April 6, 2020
March 26, 2020
- The ELN hands over three civilian kidnap victims, whom it had held for a month, to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Cauca. On March 18 the ELN handed over a minor to the ICRC in rural Arauca.
March 26, 2020
¿En qué va el caso de secuestro en la JEP?
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 8 de marzo de 2020.
An infographic responding to some of the concerns raised by victims and by the general public after the FARC’s initial testimonies about its practice of mass kidnapping during the conflict.
March 8, 2020
Kidnappings in Colombia
Posted March 3, 2020.
March 3, 2020
February 24, 2020
- One of the FARC’s most prominent former hostages, ex-senator Ingrid Betancourt, sends a strongly worded letter to the chief judge of the JEP’s Chamber for Recognition of Truth, Responsibility, and Determination of Acts and Conducts. She is responding to a news report about some of the FARC’s testimony to the JEP, in which the guerrillas attempt to play down the severity of Betancourt’s six years in jungle captivity. “It is not up to the FARC to issue good-behavior certificates for its victims. Nor is it up to us to agree with what they do.” Betancourt objects strongly to the FARC defendants’ insistence on using the word “retention” as a euphemism for kidnapping.
February 24, 2020
February 1, 2020
- In Bogotá, police arrest former FARC leader Ely Mejía Morales, alias “Martín Sombra.” Though he has been reportedly cooperating with the demobilization and transitional justice process, “Sombra” stands accused of playing a role in the ransom kidnapping of a rancher in Caquetá in 2017, after the peace accord went into effect. Martín Sombra is also known as the “jailer of the FARC” for his role in managing camps where the group kept kidnap victims for months or years at a time.
February 1, 2020