The FARC executed four abductees

The FARC executed yesterday to four abductees, a soldier and three policemen, in the middle of an operation of the Colombia army in the area where the guerrillas had the captives in the jungle and Southern Department of Caqueta.

Among those killed is the sergeant major of army José Libyan Martínez Estrada, who, with almost 14 years in power of the FARC, was the person who had more years captive in Colombia.

Martinez was kidnapped on December 21, 1997 in bloody take to the military base in Patascoy, in the Department of Nariño, when his wife was pregnant, so it never knew his son.

Others were members of the national police: Colonel Edgar Yesid Duarte and largest Elkin Hernandez Rivas, who were taken captive on 13 October 1998, and Mayor Chief Alvaro Moreno, kidnapped on 9 December 1999, the three in Caquetá, where today they found death.

Shots of grace
the u000aDefense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, said at a press conference that "they were vilely assassinated with shots of grace" and that in the place where the bodies were found had chains, that usually that Colombian guerrillas binds to its hostages.

Pinzón acknowledged that the FARC ended up with the lives of the hostages as part of a military operation in which a soldier was wounded and was arrested a guerrilla that began 45 days.

Added the tragedy el when "advanced operations in the general area of the municipality of Solano" in search of a structure of the guerrillas that according to information he had several abducted in their to.

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Family CUESTIONAN salvage attempts to
the President Juan Manuel Santos insisted that the FARC are the "sole responsibility" of an action he described as "the most cruel" which had seen in a long time.

"Three of them had" u000a"a shot in the head and one of them, two shot in the back," said Santos, so it was reaffirmed that the guilty are those who "pressed the trigger".

But exsecuetrados, relatives of hostages and members of civil society questioned yesterday attempts to ransom by the security forces. These facts demonstrate the failure of the "bailouts to blood and fire", said the President of the Association of Colombian families of members of the security forces detained and released by guerrilla groups (Asfamipaz), Marleny Orjuela, insisting that the only way to bring the hostages back to freedom is the dialogue.

Similar terms expressed in Caracol Radio exsenador Luis Eladio Perez, who was released by the FARC in 2008 after six years.

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