Colombian rebels demand stopping extradition to
US
Colombia's largest rebel group, the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), on Monday urged the
congress and the Supreme Court to stop extraditing Colombians to the
United States,
The leftist FARC made the request in a statement posted on its website,
calling the extradition an "abominable practice that violates our
sovereignty ... and offends the dignity" of the Colombians.
"We believe the congress has a moral duty to the public to stop
extradition," said the statement.
The FARC also asked the Supreme Court, which has the right to revise the
extradition petitions, to exercise its authority and reject future
extradition.
The FARC's statement came just a few days after President Alvaro Uribe
sent two FARC members to the United States on trial on drug trafficking
and terror-related charges.
The 20,000-strong FARC is Colombia's largest insurgent organization
which has been locked in a four-decade civil war, the longest in Latin
America, in which government forces, leftist guerrillas and far-right
paramilitaries fight one another. The conflicts kill more than 3,000
people a year.
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