The FARC torture regime

Observer/Guardian:

Harrowing details of the captivity of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages in Colombia emerged yesterday, at the same time as doubts surfaced over the official version of their daring rescue.

The French-Colombian politician and the captives freed in Wednesday's military operation described casual sadism, inhumane conditions and even killings in the jungle camps of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

Betancourt said she was often chained to a tree and haunted by thoughts of killing herself during her six-year ordeal. "Death is a hostage's most faithful companion. We lived with death ... and the seduction of suicide was always with us."

Another former hostage, army nurse William Pérez, said that at one point Betancourt was so depressed that she spent two weeks barely eating. "I had to spoonfeed her, like a child, saying 'this spoonful is for Mélanie [her daughter], and this one for Lorenzo [her son]'," Pérez said.

The bleak descriptions confirmed some of her supporters' fears about her captivity. The celebrations were also overshadowed by a claim that a $20m (£10m) ransom was paid and the audacious rescue was to some extent stage-managed. Washington, Paris and Bogotá denied the allegation.

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The ransom suggestion sounds more like FARC spin to try to cover their embarrassment. With their organization crumbling around them the chances of getting anyone to pay them money at this point is remote.

What the story does reveal is just how brutal liberals and commies can be. The same Democrats who are bend out of shape about Gitmo are willing to embrace these thugs and try to get them into power. Hypocrites.