Ex-guerrillas claim govt plotted fake FARC surrender [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Ex-guerrillas claim govt plotted fake FARC surrender
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:08
Jim Glade

Ex-guerrillas testify that the government collaborated with a FARC prisoner and a drug trafficker to stage the fake surrender of dozens of FARC members, La FM reported Wednesday.

On March 7, 2006, 66 guerrillas from the FARC's Cacica Gaitana Front supposedly demobilized, and then-President Alvaro Uribe, gave incarcerated FARC member, alias "Olivo Saldaña," the title of "Manager of Peace" for organizing the surrender.

Two incarcerated FARC guerrillas are claiming that the government plotted with Olivo Saldaña and drug trafficker Hugo Alberto Rojas Yepez to recruit homeless and unemployed people from the Tolima department and offer them COP500,000 to train, live and act like FARC guerrillas, then surrender to security forces.

According to the two guerrillas, who are under tight security in prison, then-Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo ordered then-commander of the Army's 6th Brigade, General Lelio Suarez Tocarruncho, to visit Olivo Saldaña in jail where they discussed plans to demobilize a FARC front.

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