Cousins?
Posted on 11/25/2007 12:31:09 PM PST by navyguy
BOGOTA, Colombia — The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched.
"I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.
Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. It leaked excerpts from the diary found last June to the media, even making available an English translation of the Dutch entries.
The first known person from outside Latin America to join the region's largest rebel army wasn't just disillusioned. Like most FARC foot soldiers, Tanja Nijmeijer apparently wasn't permitted to leave.
"This would be worth it if I knew I was fighting for something. But I don't really believe that anymore," she wrote on November 24, 2006, according to the excerpts released by the government.
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More than a dozen friends, former colleagues and fellow peace activists interviewed by The Associated Press described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life.
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In the diary, Nijmeijer abhors the strict discipline imposed by FARC's male commanders - no smoking, no phone calls, no romantic relationships without their consent. She says the rank and file are hungry and bored, and describes FARC leaders as both materialistic and corrupt.
"How will it be when we take power? The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?" she writes.
...See complete story at link above
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We got plenty of those here in the good ole USA. Wish some of them would leave and join FARC.
This girl doesn’t know how bad it can really get. At least she didn’t get run over by a Caterpillar.
I hope the Guerrillas make her attend a sensitivity class.
I'd love to get me one o' them caviar-eating Ferraris with breast implants...no reason to ever leave the garage!
Cousins?
My sympathy is for the poor innocents she and her crooines murdered.
The people she runs with think it is great fun to send mortar rounds into churches on Sunday morning blowing families into red paste.
I hope she spends the rest of her life in jail.
bttt
another “useful idiot”.
If you pick a time in the past, say 500 or 1,000 years ago, and compare what we know about those folks to us today, we have come a long, long ways.
That doesn't prove evolution though, except by the standard you set up.
Finding a diary like this is just to convenient...
as the story states... "Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC."....
It may be manufactured propaganda by Colombia
No, the one on the right hand side is much too flat.
Sorry ....... Couldn't help myself.
Well, it is handwritten ..... in Dutch.
Her family and Dutch authorities performing handwriting analysis should be able to determine if it is forged or if it sounds like her and is in her handwriting.
You MUST be kidding!!!
And just forget all the PEOPLE her and her cohorts have attempted or have murdered????
Life in the deepest, darkest Colombian prison in existence is the LEAST I'd want to see her get!
I hope there is a missing sarcasm tag in your post. This “girl” was 25 years old when she knowingly joined this group of thugs (she had been in Columbia long enough to see the aftermath of their “struggle for freedom”).
If she didn’t know better by 25 then she wasn’t going to learn.
Yes, another useful idiot. This woman has been responsible even indirectly for terrorist acts by FARC and deserves the harshest judgment.
They'll put something else in her, first.
If I had been scheduling B-52 missions back then, I'd have arranged for Jane Fonda to spend the rest of eternity 'hanging around' every tree North of the 17th parallel!
She FARC’d up BIG TIME.
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