A 32-year-old Dutch woman who joined the Colombian rebel movement Farc on leaving university in 2002 is alive and well, according to a tv documentary to be broadcast next week, the NRC reports on Tuesday.

Tanja Nijmeijer was last heard of in 2007 when her diaries were found after government troops attacked a rebel camp. In the diaries, she was very critical of her life with the Farc movement and there were fears she had been executed.
But Leo de Boer, who made the documentary Dichter bij Tanja (closer to Tanja) to be broadcast by Ikon next week, says the woman is still alive and acts as an assistant to Farc leader Mono Jojoy.
A book to be published later this week also states Nijmeijer is still alive and has special status because of her European background.
In March, her parents said they had been told by a good source that their daughter was still alive.