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Relatives take part in a freedom walk for 12 Deputies, kidnapped 4 years ago.

4/11/2006 - El Tiempo

The walk will start at 8.30 a.m. from the Regional Assembly in La Vallée going towards Pradera one of the villages to be demilitarised according to proposals made by FARC.

The relatives of those kidnapped will ask the National Government to consider the demilitarisation proposal in order to show its willingness to reach a humanitarian agreement.

"We thought we would have a large family, we wanted to have another son and they have put an end to that hope", Fabiola Perdoma, wife of Juan Carlos Narváez told us.

When Juan Carlos was kidnapped, her daughter Daniela was two years old.

"What she knows of her father is what I have told her. All she remembers is that they went to the cinema together. Every day we put aside an hour to pray for him, to talk about him, to look at his photos and videos. It has become for us a sort of ritual", says Fabiola.

Another ritual takes place every morning at 5 a.m. Then the Narváez-Perdomo family and the families of the other 11 kidnapped deputies send messages to a radio station to be broadcast to their loved ones.

In this way Juan Carlos was told when Daniela lost her milk teeth…

"We have made a diary so that not a single detail will be forgotten when he returns", states Fabiola, convinced that Juan Carlos knows more about what happens in the family than they know about him.

It was by radio that Deputy Nacianceno Orozco heard his son Manuel Alejandro had just begun studying medicine and that his daughter Juliana Andrea was going into seventh grade.

"When he returns he will find a more grown up family", says Orozco's wife, Rubis Jaramillo.

"I tell him to have patience, that God will have pity on him and all those kidnapped. All I ask of God and of FARC is that he comes back, I do not want to die without seeing him", says Luz Marine Reyes, Juan Carlos' mother. " I ask nothing of the Government because it is not interested in the fate of the kidnapped"…


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