The Dutch student who joined the Colombian guerrilla movement Farc in 2002 is alive and well, her father told De Pers newspaper on Monday.

Three months ago, Tanja Nijmeijer’s parents made an appeal to the guerrillas to let them know if their daughter was still alive.
While they had not heard from their daughter directly, a ‘good source’ said she was okay, De Pers reported.
Tanja Nijmeijer, who graduated in Spanish from Groningen University in 2002, 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.