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Ex-FARC hostage files complaint against Pastrana, Uribe

by Ben Hockman March 11, 2011

Colombia News - Luis Eladio Perez

Former Colombian Senator Luis Eladio Perez has launched formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against former Presidents Andres Pastrana and Alvaro Uribe relating to the time he spent as a FARC hostage, W Radio reported Friday.

Perez claims that the complaint is not financially motivated and that he simply wants Pastrana and Uribe, who both served as president during his time in captivity, to be forced to take responsibility for their inaction and for the fact that they made no attempt to bring him to safety.

Perez said there is a strong political need “to judge the policies of Pastrana and Uribe in respect to the tragedy that we have lived as hostages.”

Perez was captured by the FARC in 2001 and held in the rural area in the Nariño department before being released in 2008 as a result of the efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former Senator Piedad Cordoba.

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