Posted on 03/14/2008 6:58:15 PM PDT by james500
Colombia will pay a reward to a FARC guerrilla who shot dead his commander and cut off the man's hand to prove his identity in a case that sparked debate over a program to compensate informants, authorities said on Friday.
Pablo Montoya, alias Rojas, killed Ivan Rios, one of the FARC's top seven secretariat commanders, and turned himself in to soldiers in what the government described as a serious blow to Latin America's oldest rebel insurgency.
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Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said the government would pay up to $2.5 million in bounty to Montoya and three others because of information they provided and because he also handed over Rios's computer data containing more intelligence.
"We decided to recognize the payment of the reward for the three principal sources and also alias Rojas for the information they handed over," Santos told reporters.
Montoya, who was a bodyguard for Rios, is still under investigation by the attorney general's office for the killing. He shot Rios in the head, stole his passport and hacked off his hand before fleeing the rebel camp. He said he had feared Rios would kill him.
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Good news.... quite a rebate program.... wonder if it would work in the software industry....
Excellent PR and a wise move
You can’t buy that kind of loyalty.
But maybe you can sell it.
so... should ivan be remembered as "rightie" or "leftie" ivan?
Rojas! He was definitely trusted - I translated a document on FARC that had “Rojas” all through it. Good work, Colombia!
Appropriate ending for a murdering fanatic.
we should do that..
Hilarious!
If every terrorist had to worry about being killed by his own people for the reward it would take a lot of the “fun” out of it for them.
Happens all the time....
Almost anything can be bought or rented....
I suspect that many of the ARVN officers killed in Vietnam, were killed by their own for rewards from the Communists or to save some family members taken hostage by the Communists and demanded the whack to retrieve their family members....
It is fairly well acknowledged that a couple of Generals who were opposed to the widespread graft and corruption involving payments to the ARVN grunts - were killed by devices placed in their choppers by Field and Flag grade Officers who were profiting from the war... Major league fragging.
One of the sad facts of the war - is that many influential Vietnamese families who grew VERY rich through blackmail, corruption, theft, graft, prostitution, crime gangs, kidnapping, etc......were among those evacuated early and doing very well in the U.S...
I deeply suspect, that some of those “influential” family members who met “violent” or “untimely” deaths in the U.S. were the deserving victims of folks who knew and resented past wrongs done them or their family... Payback can be a bitxx.
I guess there is no statute of limitations on family or war crimes.
To some folks...... Never forget and Never forgive, means exactly that...
That is how it should be and should remain.
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