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Ingrid Betancourt Wants a Place at the Table for the FARC

08:53 H | Topics: Colombia - Politics - Women

ingrid_betancourt.jpgDuring Ingrid Betancourt's 4 day visit in Rome, she met with the pope, and she made what some would call stunning statements as to the role her once captors, the FARC, should play in Colombia.

Addressing her kidnappers directly, she said: "After almost seven years, I can say I know you, I know your organisation, your ideas, your objectives." The world, she said, is inviting them to open their hearts "to something more than political and military calculations," and to "make room for peace in your minds."

And peace can come only "through the way of democracy, mutual respect and law," she said. She asked the Colombian government to recognise the political role of the FARC, "knowing that we are different, and have different ideas."

Via / IPS and Reader Patrick Mac Manus

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