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A
few days ago in the mountains of Colombia, Roméo Langlois, a French
journalist was kidnapped while patrolling along with
Colombia’s army. Apparently, Langlois was walking with the army and
reporting their everyday routine against Farc. When surprised and
attacked by FARC, Langlois ran thinking he would be killed.
Instead of waiting with the army, he fled the scene with an unfortunate
outcome. Langlois was captured by FARC and they are holding him captive
and considering him a prisoner of war.
Latribunacolus.com Press Service
A
few days ago in the mountains of Colombia, Roméo Langlois, a French
journalist was kidnapped while patrolling along with
Colombia’s army. Apparently, Langlois was walking with the army and
reporting their everyday routine against Farc. When surprised and
attacked by FARC, Langlois ran thinking he would be killed.
Instead of waiting with the army, he fled the scene with an unfortunate
outcome. Langlois was captured by FARC and they are holding him captive
and considering him a prisoner of war.
Farc
released a statement earlier this Monday in which they continue to
claim the French reporter as a prisoner of war, and
demanded equal rights on regards to freedom of speech. This undesirables
claim that Langlois was reporting only the version of the Colombian
Government, and therefore, should be considered a prisoner
of war. They claim that many journalists, who have done investigations
about FARC or in favor of this terrorist group, are now outside Colombia
simply because the government black listed them as
terrorists because they were helping spread FARC’s message. As ironic as
it may seem that a terrorist group pretends to make a reporter doing
his job a prisoner of war, is completely absurd and out
of context. Langlois cannot be compared with journalists who aid FARC;
that is unacceptable .Farc claims that many reporters, who have been
caught interviewing Farc members or simply spreading Farc’s
message, have been isolated, and therefore pursued by the government for
aiding Farc. This terrorist group has said that until they don’t have
the same rights as the Colombian army on regards to
freedom of speech, they won’t release the French reporter. It is
completely out of this world that a terrorist group asks for equal
rights when it comes down to reporting what happens in Colombia.
Freedom of speech, Are they kidding us? Unfortunately they are not.
Langlois’s kidnapping comes as a result of Santos’s shift on security
policies and how to deal with FARC.
During
Alvaro Uribe’s Government Farc was treated as a terrorist group, and,
therefore, was attacked and pursued in every corner of
the Colombian territory. Now, Santos and his bright team of advisors
decided to change things and change Colombia’s conflict from a
terrorist’s threat to an internal conflict. That changes things in
a big way, and as a result, Mr. Langlois is called today a prisoner of
war. By changing the name of Colombia’s conflict, Santos immediately
gave farc a belligerence status that allows Farc to kidnap
a person and call him a prisoner of war. This was not possible during
Uribe’s Government, but since Santos betrayed everybody who believed in
him, now the country sees how Farc will play with
Colombia due to the fact that there is a weak government that favors
Terrorism in Colombia. These organizations do not understand soft talk,
they understand the talk of the law coming down on them
with force and destroying them. Colombia was very effective in
diminishing Farc, but with Santos that is at risk, and Langlois’s
kidnapping is proof of this.
At
latribunacolus.com we expect Langlois to be liberated soon, but as we
have seen in the past, this may not come so easily. Santos
has to reassess his strategy against Farc and go after them with no
pity. Mr. Santos if you want to secure peace, you must not continue to
enforce weak policies against Farc. A strong hand is needed
and you have demonstrated that you are not that strong when attacking
Farc. Langlois must be liberated and you Mr. Santos were elected to
avoid these things from happening. Do your job without
favoring those who support terror in Colombia. If you hadn’t changed the
name of the Colombian conflict, this would not be happening. Langlois
must be liberated at once, and Farc must be terminated
to avoid good people from falling into the hands of terrorism.
Cristhian Mancera Mejia
Director
www.latribunacolus.com
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