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Uribe threatens Chavez with ICC
By Upstream staff
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe said today his government would ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for financing and supporting Colombia's main rebel group.
The Uribe government claims documents found in the laptop of a slain commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) indicate Chavez's government recently gave $300 million to the group known the FARC.
The US and the European Union classify the FARC as an international terrorist organisation, an Associated Press report said.
''Colombia is proposing that the International Criminal Court charge Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, for the support and financing of genocide,'' AP quoted Uribe telling journalists today.
Uribe did not explain what arguments against Chavez would be presented to the Netherlands-based court.
The Colombian government says documents found in the laptop of Raul Reyes, a senior FARC leader killed Saturday in a raid on a guerrilla camp just inside Ecuador, show Chavez's ties with the rebels date back more than a decade.
The documents indicate, Colombia alleges, that the FARC even sent Chavez money when he was in jail from 1992-94 for leading a failed coup.
Venezuela has denied the claims, saying Colombia is lying.
04 March 2008 16:44 GMT | last updated: 04 March 2008 16:44 GMT
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