The Red Cross on Thursday entered FARC controlled area in the southwest of Colombia to receive two policemen who were captured by rebels earlier this month.
The armed forces have ceased military activity around Miranda in the Cauca department to provide safe passage to the Red Cross which will retrieve the two policemen, reported W Radio.
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Red Cross ready to retrieve policemen, soldier held by FARC
The committee expects that the soldier, who was captured January 30 by the FARC in the Nariño department and is held separately, will be released next Saturday, according to El Espectador.
The FARC, Colombia’s oldest and largest rebel movement, banned kidnapping for economical and political reason in February last year. It has since held “political prisoners” but these were released within weeks after their kidnapping, apparently without ransom.
The rebel group has been involved in peace talks with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos since late last year. Both parties have expressed their desire to end the armed conflict between rebels and state that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions over the past decades.