Release Betancourt says Davidson, as anti-corruption activist enters seventh year in captivity
Issued: 22 February 2008
Statement by Elizabeth Davidson
Green Party representative for Dublin South West Elizabeth Davidson has called for the release of Columbian anti-corruption activist Ingrid Betancourt on the eve of the sixth anniversary of her captivity.
Betancourt, who was a Green Senator and Presidential candidate, was taken hostage by FARC Guerillas on 23 February 2002.
"I am joining in the many calls from around the world for the release of this brave woman and all of the other prisoners held by FARC guerillas in the Colombian jungle," said Davidson. "As we prepare to honour mothers next weekend let us think of this mother and her children who have been seperated for six long years through an act of cowardly terrorism."
Betancourts running mate for Vice Presidency Clara Rojas was also kidnapped in 2002 but was released last month. Ingrid Betancourt is still being held by the FARC Guerrilla Group as a key hostage for a possible humanitarian exchange of prisoners for hostages with the government