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Nicaragua Gives Asylum to Survivors of Colombian Attack on Ecuador

HeadlineJun 23, 2008

Nicaragua has given asylum to three Colombian women who survived a Colombian army attack on a FARC camp inside Ecuador in March that killed over twenty people. Lucia Moret said she wants to see Colombian President Alvaro Uribe put on trial.

Lucia Moret: “Wherever we go, we’ll denounce him, but our lives are at risk. Uribe is scared, should we talk, because we can be witnesses of charges in a trial that will be opened against him, because one day he will sit in the bench of the accused for everything that he did and for the massacre of March 1.”

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused Uribe of carrying out state terrorism.

Daniel Ortega: “He says that he’s fighting against terrorism, and the terrorist is him, because he not only commits terrorism against the Colombian people, but also against neighboring countries, and in this case Ecuador, where they nearly murdered these three women and murdered other colleagues, and they took the bodies to Bogota.”

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