Colombia’s largest rebel faction was compared to Al Qaeda and Hitler’s concentration camps according to declarations made by Colombia’s government. “The FARC are as terrorist as Al Qaeda” said vice president Francisco Santos during a political conference held in England. On Monday, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe compared the FARC’s hostages to this held in World War II concentration camps: 'The hostages have really suffered, as much as the Jews in Hitler's concentration camps,' Uribe told Europe 1 radio just hours before he was to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
He said that former FARC hostage Clara Rojas, liberated on January 10, had talked to him about 'the torture.'
Uribe’s remarks were similar to those made last year on Adolph Hitler and FARC spokesman Raul Reyes.
Meanwhile, Uribe responded without hyperbole to barbs hurled by Hugo Chavez; yesterday, Chavez accused Uribe of being a “coward,” a "pawn of the U.S.", and “suitable to be a mafia boss."
Sources (English)- Monsters & Critics, Chicago Tribune, The Latin Americanist
Sources (Spanish)- RCN, El Tiempo
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