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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1735671,00.html

April 28, 2008

Three U.S. hostages in Colombia, seen for the first time since their capture, make an emotional videotaped plea for help. (CBS)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/06/60II/main576739.shtml

Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped in February 2002

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4456434.stm

http://www.newsweek.com/id/109286

Stansell's father Gene (left), son Kyle and mother Lynne spoke with reporters outside the Colombian ambassador's residence in New York in September 2007

George Gonsalves poses with a photograph of his son Marc Gonsalves (C), Keith Stansell (L) and Thomas Howes at his home in Hebron, Connecticut February 12, 2008.

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USN1225948020080212&channelName=topNews#a=1

Silvio Hernandez holds a picture of his kidnapped son, Elquin, during a demonstration outside Colombia's Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702199.html

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7830

There are now two dozen American companies here, with the contracts for antidrug programs worth $178 million last year. They spray coca fields, operate eavesdropping devices, organize alternative development programs, repair airplanes, assess intelligence and advise the Colombian Defense Ministry.

Farc rebels want senior leaders released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4743951.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ame

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US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack

US urges FARC to free US hostages

France has campaigned for the release of Ingrid Betancourt

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4654440.stm

Columbia's president has accepted the counties Roman Catholic's bishops offer to mediate in the conflict with the country's left-wing rebels.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/colombia.accepts.church.mediation/3767.htm

The US government bankrolls the Colombian government to the tune of more than $600m a year

President Alvaro Uribe previously ruled out exchanging rebel hostages for guerrillas serving sentences for crimes like murder and kidnapping. However, next year is an election year and he is hoping to win another term

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4719959.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/02/betancourt.colombia/index.html

Misuse of the Red Cross emblem is governed by articles 37, 38 and 85 of Additional Protocol One to the Geneva Conventions, the international rules of war. The articles prohibit “feigning of protected status by the use of … emblems” of neutral parties and say that such misuses are considered breaches of international humanitarian law that qualify as a “war crime.”

Intentional misuse of the Red Cross symbol is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, as it can place humanitarian war zone workers in serious danger and undermines neutrality of the Red Cross.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/15/colombia.red.cross/index.html

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