Guerrillas who have deserted of the rebellious rows and turned informers, have a catholic bishop, a mayor and other 16 civil employees and ex- municipal civil employees front to a penal process by rebellion, while the veracity of their accusations is reason for controversy.

Monsignor Jose Luis Serna, who was bishop of the diocese of the municipalities of Honda and Lebanon during 13 years and helped to the liberation of people kidnapped by guerrilla detachments was called last Friday to render investigatory.

The bishop was accused before the Office of the public prosecutor along with the mayor of Villahermosa, Jesus Antonio Giraldo, by Jose Alexánder Daza, ex- guerrilla of the Army of national liberation (Eln), of being `` ordered to collect the rebellious finances '', according to fragments of his judicial declaration, the east Spectator Sunday.

?Me a reinsertada guerrilla has commented that is speaking of more obtaining benefits than they do not correspond to him, the priest said when questioning him to it on the moving bodies of the penal investigation.

Serna bishop recognized that there is `` looked for the liberation of kidnapped to alleviate to the situation of the person and of his relatives '', but indicated that their transparent and exclusively humanitarian managements were `` and that they have to do with his condition of priest ' '.

The governor of the Department of the Tolima, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, assumed the defense of the Mayor of Villahermosa, the bishop and the other civil employees and ex- municipal civil employees and said that the ex- accusing guerrillas are little trustworthy witnesses, because they have to his backs accusations by several crimes.

`` the reinsertados ones are becoming botafuegos, through their declarations, tying to everybody (with the guerrilla) as if here in the Tolima all were in favor or collaborating of those groups rebel, they are guerrilla or self-defense '', said Jaramillo to Radionet.

The reintegration policy has become one of the fundamental tools of the government of president Alvaro Uribe in the anti-guerrilla warfare the paramilitary and groups.

This year around 645 guerrillas and some few paramilitary ones they have deserted to take refuge in the reintegration program that allows them to receive economic and educative aid to reincorporar itself to the civil life, according to statistics of the Ministry of Defense.

Many of them are cooperating with information on the movements of the guerrilla and some, as in the case of the bishop and the mayor, have formulated concrete denunciations before the Office of the public prosecutor that are now pieces of a judicial process.