Colombia’s FARC Rebels to Stop Practice of Kidnapping

Posted on February 28, 2012

This week, Voice of Witness editor Sibylla Brodzinsky published an article in the Christian Science Monitor. Sibylla reports that Colombia’s FARC rebels will no longer use kidnapping as an intimidation tactic in an effort to restart peace talks, and they will release their “prisoners of war”—members of the military and politics used for exchange with captured rebels.

Sibylla is co-editor of the forthcoming title by Voice of Witness, Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence. Coming this fall, Throwing Stones at the Moon describes the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Click here to learn more about the book.

To read Sibylla’s article on the Christian Science Monitor, click here.

Voice of Witness is a non-profit organization that uses oral history to illuminate contemporary human rights crises in the U.S. and around the world. Founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, Voice of Witness publishes a book series that depicts human rights injustices through the stories of the men and women who experience them. The Voice of Witness Education Program brings these stories, and the issues they reflect, into high schools and impacted communities through oral history-based curricula and holistic educator support.

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