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Colombian rebels free four hostages.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
Colombian rebels freed four hostages today in the first of three handovers planned for this week, in a unilateral goodwill gesture that was seen as an attempt by the rebels to regain political momentum after a devastating year.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, released three policemen and a soldier into the hands of the Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba and a commission of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who picked them up in a jungle clearing.
Juan Fernando Galicia, Walter Jos' Lozano, Alexis Torres and William Giovanny Dominguez, who were kidnapped in 2007, were taken by helicopter to the regional airport in the city of Villavicencio.
Tomorrow the rebels plan to release a former governor, Alan Jaram, and on Wednesday another politician, Sigifredo Lopez, the last two civilians of a group of hostages whom the rebels wanted to use as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government over a ...
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