Dutch woman Tanja Nijmeijer, who has been fighting with Farc guerillas in Colombia since 2002 does not want to be rescued and will stay with the movement until her death, she says in an interview broadcast by the Dutch world service RNW.

‘If the army and government of Colombia still think or say I was kidnapped let them come here and rescue me. We will meet them with AK47s, bazookas, mines, mortars, everything,’ Niemeijer says in the interview, which was apparently recorded in August.
‘I am a fighter for the Colombian revolutionary forces and I will remain so until victory is achieved or until I die. There is no turning back. I am proud to be a guerrilla,’ she said.
Pressure

Despite Nijmeijer’s conviction in the video, it is unclear if she was pressured into appearing before the cameras or how freely she was able to speak.
In October, Colombian deputy president Angelino Garzon told Nos tv Nijmeijer will not be prosecuted if she leaves the movement and returns to the Netherlands.
In September, an important Farc leader was killed in a government raid and for a time it was thought Nijmeijer was among the casualties.
Niemeijer, who graduated in Spanish from Groningen University in 2002, hit the headlines 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.