NationStates Jolt Archive


You Can't Find Good Help Nowadays...

Sanmartin
08-03-2008, 04:07
Especially if you're a rebel leader. I mean, killed by your own head of security, who chops off your hand and sells it to your enemies...

Probably scarier than crossing the border and bombing you to death. Your fellow rebel leaders are probably not sleeping well tonight...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/colombia.farc/index.html

CUCUTA, Colombia (CNN) -- As South American officials tried to ease tensions sparked by Colombia's killing of a rebel leader inside Ecuador, the Colombian army announced the death of another top militant Friday.
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[A cooler allegedly containing the hand of Ivan Rios is examined at a military base in Manizales.]

Ivan Rios, whose real name was Manuel de Jesus Munoz, was one of six remaining members of the leadership council of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

"The FARC has suffered a new, major blow," Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said, according to The Associated Press.

Rios was killed by his own chief of security, who offered items including the rebel leader's severed right hand as proof of his death, the AP quoted Santos as saying.

On Saturday, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as Raul Reyes, was killed in a raid into Ecuador.

He was FARC's second-in-command -- and the first member of the leftist rebel group's general secretariat killed by Colombia in the 40 years that it has been fighting to overthrow the Colombian government.

Twenty-one other people were also killed in the attack.

Wow - a cooler of ice...
Damor
08-03-2008, 16:52
A severed right hand is not proof of death. It's proof of a severed right hand.
For all we know, he just wanted everyone to think he's dead, and was willing to sacrifice a hand for it. Next time, take the head.
Marrakech II
08-03-2008, 17:28
A severed right hand is not proof of death. It's proof of a severed right hand.
For all we know, he just wanted everyone to think he's dead, and was willing to sacrifice a hand for it. Next time, take the head.

Either head would suffice.
Non Aligned States
08-03-2008, 17:38
Either head would suffice.

I wasn't aware that the FARC had hydras in their employ.
Kirchensittenbach
08-03-2008, 17:52
I think Marrakech meant the head off his manhood

any self respecting man would want death after losing that