Open Democracy: the hostage rescue in Colombia and the future of the FARC
BBC: on a personal note, a friend's release highlights the types of kidnapping victims that the FARC still holds
"The two liberations illustrate the two very different types of hostages in Colombia: political captives, designed to further the Farc's agenda, and victims of economic extortion, whom the Farc, the ELN guerrillas and criminal groups use to fill their coffers."
LAT: sexual violence in Zimbabwe: "The election is over, but the terror isn't."
"Asiatu, 21, is a prisoner of the [militia members] at a command base of the ruling ZANU-PF party, one of 900 such camps set up by the party to terrorize Zimbabweans into voting for Robert Mugabe in the one-man presidential runoff late last month and extending his 28-year rule...'I'm still at the base. I'm being raped by four or five men daily,' she whispers, bursting into tears. 'Any time they want, night or day.'"
NYT: no rescue on the horizon
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