Colombia: FARC to release hostage held for 11 years

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest rebel group, announced on Thursday it would release Pablo Moncayo, a soldier kidnapped by the group 11 years ago.

In a statement posted on the website of Senator Piedad Cordoba, FARC said that the release will be a unilateral gesture of peace and they will seek mechanisms to make it possible.

Moncayo, one of the longest-held hostages by FARC, was captured during a rebel incursion in Colombia's Narino department on the border with Ecuador.

Published by Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting
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