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Ingrid Betancourt passava e so vacanze in Corsica
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Hè u so figliolu chì a dice. A simana scorsa, parlendu à a so mamma nant'à a radiu, li averebbe ramintatu e so vacanze passate in Corsica. Hè ciò ch'ellu dice un articulu di u Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/08/europe/EU-GEN-France-Colombia-Hostages-Children.php
Al di là di stu ricordu, ci tocca à ricurdà ci di sta donna chì, à mezu à a furesta, soffre per via di a so indiatura à prò di a demucrazia è di a libertà.
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Betancourt's children urge strength in face of 5-year kidnapping in Colombia
"Not a day of your captivity goes by that I don't think of you," the teenager said into a radio microphone in Paris — a message he hoped would reach his mother deep in the jungles of Colombia, where she is held hostage.
It has been nearly six years since Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian citizen, was abducted by leftist guerrillas while campaigning for Colombia's presidency in 2002. Her children and French President Nicolas Sarkozy fear she is wasting away, and they hope appeals over the radio airwaves will revive her survival instinct.
Betancourt's son Lorenzo, now 19, was 13 the last time he saw his mother. In a radio appeal Friday, he called her "my sweet little mama, my heart."
"I want you to live," he told her in the message on RFI radio, which can be heard in Colombia, his voice steady. "I want you to eat and have the will to live."
Until last week, Lorenzo and his sister Melanie, 22, had no proof their mother was still alive. Then Colombian authorities arrested three suspected guerrillas and seized a video showing her thin and haggard, as well as a 12-page handwritten note from Betancourt.
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In the letter, dated Oct. 24, Betancourt described losing her appetite and her hope. But she said she could sometimes hear her mother speaking on a Colombian radio station and she urged more news about her children.
"This is the only information that is vital, wonderful, essential," she wrote. "The rest doesn't matter to me anymore."
On the radio, Lorenzo told his mother of his classes at the Sorbonne in Paris and his vacation on the island of Corsica. Melanie, who is studying film in New York, told her mother: "Be strong, because we're going to bring you home."
The two plan to send messages to their mother every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, as she requested in the letter. Betancourt's missive also sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity in France, and Sarkozy made an unusual direct appeal Thursday to a Colombian rebel leader to release her.
"I do not share your ideas and I condemn your methods," Sarkozy said in the television message to Manuel Marulanda, head of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC.
But "you must save a woman in danger of death," Sarkozy said. "You can show the world that the FARC understands humanitarian imperatives." Sarkozy also urged Betancourt to hang on, and said his dream was to see her freed before Christmas, which is her 46th birthday.
Sarkozy's spokesman, David Martinon, said Friday that French agents have been in contact with the FARC over the case.
"It's clearly a difficult mission because ... to get into contact with the FARC, you have to walk," Martinon said.
Betancourt and three Americans are among 46 high-profile hostages held by the group. The guerrillas are demanding that hundreds of rebels imprisoned in Colombia and the United States be released in exchange for their freedom, but movement toward an exchange has long been frustrated.
An outspoken former lawmaker who was once determined to tackle Colombia's rampant corruption, Betancourt sounded resigned and weakened in her letter. She said how proud she was of her children, mentioning Lorenzo's love of music and writing that she had learned of Melanie's studies in New York.
"If I died today, I would be satisfied with my life, thanking God for my children," she wrote. |
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