Comments on: Tanja Nijmeijer

By: laura

laura — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:35:34 +0000

Before you publish something you should do some research its Colombia not Columbia. Do you even know where is located? ignorant!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:10:04 +0000

“… its alleged involvement in the narcotics trade…”, “Don’t believe the hype.” …were you born yesterday?

The FARC are the most brutal organisation in South america, their crimes have been documented by all sources, Human Rights organisations, foreign governments, the red cross, etc. they have a policy of executing kidnap hostages every time they hear some suspicious noise, and they do not shy away of torturing and killing their own for the slightest misbehaviour.

They killed 27 indians member of the AWA recently because they refused to cooperate with them.

These are guys who have nothing but their own personal interests in mind!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:20:47 +0000

Seems like government propaganda bullshit to me.

Why not show the pages of the diary???

Don’t believe the hype.

By: N. Bethune

N. Bethune — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:04:26 +0000

Her idealism is admirable. What she is finding is that life on the ground in rural, third world conditions is probably harsher than she anticipated. What’s more, life in an armed conflict is tedious – if she read “Homage to Catalonia” she might have learned something about this. Maybe she did read it and wasn’t convinced, since she is after all well educated. (Certainly more so than Lee above, who in his FOX News version of history, puts Evo Morales in the same category as Pol Pot.) In any case, let’s hope that her idealism and commitment to class struggle is tempered rather than extinguished by these experiences. The most important point seems to be this: the situation with FARC is seems full of contradictions. There are many factors related to FARC that make its situation complicated: its alleged involvement in the narcotics trade, its apparently endless stalemate with the Columbian government, its supposed use of young people as soldiers, and not least of all its very use of violence as a political tool. All of these are questionable and probably confusing for an outsider who joined the movement out of personal commitment. But as stated at the beginning, this leap of hers is admirable. Most people, by contrast, are cowards. We can only hope that she keeps her belief inspite of realizing that the the real world of conflict is full of gradations of right and wrong as well as paradox.

By: hitsusa

hitsusa — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:18:34 +0000

From today’s CNN story:

In the diary, Nijmeijer abhors the strict discipline imposed by FARC’s male commanders — no smoking, no phone calls, no romantic relationships without their consent. She says the rank and file are hungry and bored, and describes FARC leaders as both materialistic and corrupt.

“How will it be when we take power? The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?” she writes.

Santos told AP that the Nijmeijer case should help rid foreign leftists of the notion that the FARC is heroic.

“In certain circles in Europe, there still exists the romantic image of the guerrillas as Robin Hood, or Che Guevara, fighting the bad guys for the benefit of the poor,” he said. “Nijmeijer fell into this trap.”

Nijmeijer wrote her thesis on the FARC at the University of Groningen in her homeland, then traveled to Colombia in 2000 on a work-exchange program.

By: Lee Long-hwa

Lee Long-hwa — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:07:57 +0000

Like many liberal-minded but hopelessly misled people, being in love with the mystery and danger of being a leftist rebel is more important than the awful truth that the principles for which many leftists are allegedly fighting are as fascist as the most tyrannical dictators in history. In fact, some of the most tyrannical dictators in history, responsible for most of the death in the past century, have been “communists”, such as Mao and Stalin. Pol Pot murdered millions in Cambodia pursuing an inane plan of agrarian utiopia which sounds suspiciously like the lifestyle undertaken by FARC, the Viet Cong were responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, and who knows how many have perished under Cuba’s King Fidel I, or his successor, King Raul I. Now, King Hugo I of Venezuela is embarking on his own 50 year reign, also espousing a frighteningly familiar leftist agenda that echoes the horrific trauma exacted on the people of Cambodia by Pol Pot’s regime, complete with imposing collectives, purging universities and schools, and silencing all opposition. Leftist Evo Morales is not far behind. How many will die in the name of a socialist agenda that is neither socialist nor sensible? How many will die from the violence that is needed to force people to live in a system that is both unnatural and unwanted? Communism requires tyranny and dictatorship because no one wants to live in this way – which brings us to the disillusioned Dutch girl – who wants to fight for living this way? Where’s the advantage of imposing this insane kind of a system on a country? In any event, “communism” as it is used today merely means “totalitarian dictatorship.” Chavez, Castro, Morales, Hu Jin-tao, and the rest can keep it.

By: hitsusa

hitsusa — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:18:20 +0000

Quote from a foriegn news story about the laptop and Tanja’s diary:

Colombian soldiers surprised Nijmeijer’s FARC unit along Guayabero River in central Colombia. They also recovered a computer belonging to unit commander Carlos Antonio Lozada.

“The chief has fallen for a girl with big tits,” Nijmeijer reports in a Nov. 2, 2006, entry. “But it appears she brought some venereal disease with her. The chief says the government sent her in order to infect and weaken the rebel leaders.”

Guess the bloom is off the rose….

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