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FARC claim execution of deserted rebel commander

by Adriaan Alsema May 19, 2009

Colombia news - FARC

Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said Monday they executed one of their
commanders. The rebels say the commander had deserted and was in army
custody.

According to a press release on the rebels’ website, Julio Alexander ‘Olvani’ Marean Ortiz was executed in the town of Puerto Asis in the morning of May 3 by a special guerrilla commando of the guerrillas’ 48th front. The FARC say ‘Olvani’ was under permanent protection of the army and killed “under their noses.”

“The enemy guarded him as a relic and valued him as a treasure,” the guerrillas said.

‘Olvani’ was in charge of the security of ‘Raul Reyes’, the FARC commander who was killed by the Colombian army while in a rebel camp over the Ecuadorean border.

Neither the desertion nor assassination were confirmed by the Colombian army.

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