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9/28/2006 : Colombia suggests demilitarization for exchange of prisoners
The Colombian government Thursday suggested the creation of a "demilitarized zone" to facilitate the exchange of imprisoned leftist rebels for hostages, who include many public officials held for years by leftist rebels.
9/26/2006 : Ingrid Betancourt and kidnapped politicians alive
REBELS have released a video showing 12 Colombian politicians alive after four years in captivity, and said Franco-Colombian former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was being treated well.
9/25/2006 : In rebel video, Colombia hostages plead for freedom
In a video released by their rebel captors, Colombian lawmakers held hostage for more than four years pleaded with President Alvaro Uribe to negotiate with leftist guerrillas to secure their release.
9/24/2006 : UN concerned as thousands flee new clashes between army and irregulars
The United Nations refugee agency today raised a new alarm over the number of Colombians driven from their homes by clashes between Government forces and irregular armed groups in the north-eastern Catatumbo region of a country where more than four decades of war have already displaced at least 2.5 million people.
9/23/2006 : Amnesty International's public statement on Colombia
In a public statement published today, Amnesty International (AI) welcomes the decision by the Colombian Government and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made public on 12 September 2006, to renew the integral mandate of the Office in Colombia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for one year, but believes that the current human rights situation in Colombia makes it all the more critical that the current mandate is maintained intact.
9/13/2006 : Sakharov nominees: Betancourt, Milinkevitch, Mam
The French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, long held hostage by rebels in her adoptive country, is one of ten candidates being presented to win the Sakharov Prize. Other front-runners include the Belarus
opposition leader Alexander Milinkevitch. These, respectively, were nominated by the conservative Christian Democrat EPP and the Socialist group in the European Parliament. The assembly's third-largest group, the Liberals, proposed the Cambodian Somaly Mam, for her work rescuing women and children in southeast Asia from sexual exploitation. The prestigious award which celebrates freedom of thought has been attributed each year since 1988.
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9/5/2006 : Colombian rebels press government for hostage swap
Colombian rebels holding 62 hostages, including three Americans and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, called on Monday for "face-to-face" talks with the government on a prisoner exchange.
9/2/2006 : Husband of kidnapped candidate appeals to guerrillas
The husband of kidnapped former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, distributed thousands of pictures of his wife's children from an airplane.
The plane flew over a mountainous region in the south of the country on Friday.
During the flight Juan Carlos Lecompte threw handfuls of flyers out of the window of the plane.
The photos show Ingrid's children, Melanie and Lorenzo, aged 20 and 17.
"This is a proof of her children's life that I am sending her. I hope this will cheer her up and raise her morale. She must be very depressed, as I have been sometimes," said Lecompte.
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