Ecuador Rejects Interpol
Analysis On Computers of
Colombian Rebel Group
Ecuadorian Justice
Minister Gustavo Jalkh
Friday rejected a report
by the International
Police (Interpol) about
analysis results on
computers captured from
the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia.
"Interpol's report
doesn't have credibility
because once a custody
chain is broken,
everything that comes
out later has a total
discredit," Jalkh told
local press.
"Public facts don't have
to be proven and the
fact that the custody
chain is broken is
obvious and doesn't have
to be proven by any
expert opinion," he
added.
On March 1, Colombian
troops bombed a FARC
base in Ecuadorian
territory and seized the
computers belonging to
FARC's No. 2 leader Raul
Reyes, who was killed in
the raid. Ecuador broke
relations with Colombia
after the event,
claiming that the raid
violated Ecuador's
sovereignty.
Colombia filed a
petition for the
Interpol to study the
FARC computers, which
supposedly has contents
showing links between
Venezuelan and
Ecuadorian governments
and FARC.
Interpol's secretary
general, Ronald Kenneth
Noble, announced the
results of the analysis
on Thursday in Bogota,
Colombia.
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez said
Thursday that Interpol
actually made a "show"
in Colombia by failing
to prove any link
between the Venezuelan
government and
Colombia's rebel groups.
It was a "joke" and a
"charade" to link the
Venezuelan government
with the FARC group,
Chavez told a press
conference.
Ecuadorian political
analyst Cesar Montufar
said, based on the
Interpol report, that
the documents were not
manipulated, but that
doesn't mean its
contents are true, he
added.
A commission comprising
independent experts with
high credibility in
Ecuador should be
created to seek the
truth about the
computers, said the
expert. |
