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VIDEO: Surrendered FARC leader speaks
20 May 2008 08:24:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 19 - She is led into the news conference under Colombian military escort. Then Nelly Avila Morena...the rebel commander known as Karina...makes her statement.

FARC rebels have been waging a Marxist revolution in the jungles of Colombia for more than 4 decades.

Katharine Jackson reports.

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