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This young man, who was forcibly recruited by the FARC in Cauca, guarded for more than one year to three of the deputies of Valle. Related information
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Bermúdez Arango, alias "Mamajuana", one of those responsible for kidnapping
Photo courtesy of Alvaro Leyva
a jungle in Nariño, an international commission found the bodies of the murdered in June pasado.Ella fled a camp in the Naya, between Valle and Cauca, more than a week.
"I made signs with his hand, saying goodbye, it tears you down and we no longer saw each other again." So the guerrilla recalls the last time he saw three of them alive, who cared from late 2005 until last March.
"My friend was this," he grins, pointing to the photo of Rufino Varela. It also identifies and Sigifredo Juan Carlos Narvaez Lopez, the only surviving former deputies.
She, along with 9 other guerrillas, welcomed the end of 2005, the mission to receive the three politicians and care. The day he took leave of Rufino was a Tuesday in March, when monitoring of the three former deputies remained in the hands of a commander 'Ezequiel', column 'Daniel Aldana'.
"I had four years with the guerrillas. I was recruited in Silvia (Cauca), took me to Tumaco to receive training, then I started making Piendamó intelligence and border and then sent me a guerrilla rasa. Then I had to go by the deputies, "he says.
The day I went to look
Remember that was in the Ceral, village of Naya, when he received the order to" go pick up a package to Corinth. "
" The commander, named "Jairo" or "Mamajuana" I was very confident but I did not say what was the package. We spent one and a half to get us back and the same for the three men. They were compared with a company of 6, who had taken the 60 "she says as bay leaves.
" They were skinny when received. There one who was very ill and had malaria (identified in a photo to Rufino Varela). Came with shivering and would not receive food.
not speak, "he recalls.
In the photos of three newspapers and recognizes the search. I did not know their names because they were ordered to receive custody have no contact with them, but the teenager took his tricks to be able to approach the
man who "wanted to die from physical hunger."
"He (Rufino) repeated a thousand times that he preferred to be killed to keep from death row and I got food, but with the passage of time as something accepted by the
morning I got the cast that we gave them at 10 ".
According account the defector, the move from three camps in the area and kept in chains.
" In the day had the chain in his hands and at night you put them on foot. When I went to the bathroom SolTab one hand, but the other was attached itself. When was
urinated in front of us and for other needs the string to tie it a stick, but we could not stop looking at them, "he says.
" Sometimes they run out of soap and I was getting a Mr. (Rufino) below string.
He was bearded and not shaved. Even one day he was giving me a phone and realized and punished me, but I was just confidence commander put me and took away
rancher weapons a week. "
His boldness away from him, because the commander was forbidden even looking. But he inspired confidence in his words, took her to get something he had asked.
"When I got to Timba, a village out there, I took a book from a store. It was from a man old man who tells stories ... Rafael Pombo is called? And I took it. When others read
neglected him. He also took a notebook and write things that passed.
Former guerrilla
recalls that one day down the river for bathing, Rufino Varela said he helped him escape, he then helped off the guerrillas. "So when I later learned that he was killed
promised me that as I flew out and took me to the front commander."
And so his promise early last Monday, when he was on duty took advantage and ran the camp, non-stop for three hours through the jungle until they reached a trail. There he hid his uniform and rifle and took a bus as he could to Palmyra, where he gave in a church.
When asked what he remembers from Rufino Varela, responds: "The sadness of his eyes." Which was reflected when they parted after I ordered them out of Naya and lead to the courtyard.
"We wore three, two others got out of Corinth and the other group had in Piedrasentada, side of the Cross (Nariño)."
De Sigifredo Lopez recalls that he never spoke with the guerillas fighters and Juan Carlos Narvaez, who spent his whole time talking with Rufino Varela, but did not trust the rebels.
"The news that came back had been consummated as late April (the reunion of Members). Months later we heard on the news they had been killed. That yes I cried.
But right now I'm more relaxed because he turned the promise to the Lord, "he concludes.
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