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Kill priests, FARC leader says
ByUNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
PublishedSeptember 6, 2005
BOGOTA, Colombia*–*The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s top military chief, Jorge Briceno, has called for the killing of clergy.
**According to Caracol News, “the death of Father Jesus Adrian Sanchez, which occurred Aug. 18 in (the southern province of) Tolima and which according to authorities can be attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, is part of this group’s offensive against the clergy.”
**** The order to murder clergy apparently came Briceno. Colombian military intelligence officials report that the rationale for targeting clerics “was explained in a speech by Briceno … that was taped by a fighter who deserted the FARC’s ranks.” Briceno purportedly said, “All of these clerics are agents of the enemy or propagators of a doctrine that numbs people’s minds and makes them enemies of the guerrillas,” before instructing his men to “kill all the clerics, without saying it was us.”
wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050906-042843-6181r
ByUNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
PublishedSeptember 6, 2005
BOGOTA, Colombia*–*The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s top military chief, Jorge Briceno, has called for the killing of clergy.
**According to Caracol News, “the death of Father Jesus Adrian Sanchez, which occurred Aug. 18 in (the southern province of) Tolima and which according to authorities can be attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, is part of this group’s offensive against the clergy.”
**** The order to murder clergy apparently came Briceno. Colombian military intelligence officials report that the rationale for targeting clerics “was explained in a speech by Briceno … that was taped by a fighter who deserted the FARC’s ranks.” Briceno purportedly said, “All of these clerics are agents of the enemy or propagators of a doctrine that numbs people’s minds and makes them enemies of the guerrillas,” before instructing his men to “kill all the clerics, without saying it was us.”
wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050906-042843-6181r