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A FARC leader accused of pedophilia

By: GONZALO GUILLEN

El Nuevo Herald Colombia's government brought criminal charges against one of the main leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) after El Nuevo Herald on Sunday published an article linking it to sexual abuse of rural girls and indigenous.

legal action against Luis Edgar Devia Silva, aka Raúl Reyes'',''was filed in Bogotá with the Attorney General in the nation by the Deputy Interior Minister Maria Isabel Nieto Jaramillo, who shows him''the Attorney General the nation, Mario Iguarán Arana, concern about the proliferation of the phenomenon of trafficking in Colombia and the shocking news''published by El Nuevo Herald, said a communication from the ministry.

The story, which has caused international outrage against the FARC, has been reproduced around the world and translated into several languages.

The complaint was raised specifically by the Ministry of Interior and Justice''as the technical secretary of the Interagency Committee to Combat Human Trafficking in Colombia,''the statement said.

authorities initiated criminal proceedings against Kings''to kidnap underage girls and sexual exploitation, according to a report published in El Nuevo Herald of Miami on Feb. 3,''said the communication from the Ministry of Interior.

'The news article reporting the recruitment, transfer and reception of girls for sexual exploitation by Luis Edgar Devia Silva, alias' Raul Reyes, FARC spokesman, who remains available to groups of girls from the age of nine kidnapped by his order in poor neighborhoods in cities and towns in order to enslave them to satisfy their sexual desires, according to testimony from dozens of their own children who have escaped from the hands of the guerrillas.''

This report will allow the testimony of the girls, and other evidence held by various state and non-governmental organizations, can be used in court against the guerrilla leader.

Other cases of sexual exploitation and abuse of children are sent to fight also point to the right-wing paramilitaries and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN).

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