Dutch Farc guerrilla gives television interview

Tanja Nijmeijer, the Dutch woman who joined the Farc guerrilla movement in 2002, is alive and remains committed to the cause, according to an interview recorded in the jungle in mid-November.


The interview is to be broadcast by Nos television on Wednesday evening. During the interview, Nijmeijer is reported to say that ‘when you are in the jungle and you hear continuous bombing and shooting, the only reaction that you have as a guerrilla is to shoot.’
Last year the US issued arrest warrents for Nijmeijer and 17 other Farc members in connection with the deaths and kidnapping of Americans and a Colombian, Nos said.
Nijmeijer, 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.
Last year, she was thought to have been killed in a government raid, but that later turned out not to be the case.

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