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Not the made up crap that the un-hinged left spews, but some real life Marx and Che’ inspired war crimes…

The United Nations (U.N.) released a statement Wednesday saying that the prolonged imprisonment and inhumane treatment of hostages by the FARC constitute war crimes and, or crimes against humanity under international law, El Espectador reported.

The statement also demanded the "immediate and unconditional release" of all hostages still held by the FARC.

The U.N.'s statement follows the release of FARC hostage Josue Calvo last Sunday and Pablo Emilio Moncayo on Tuesday after 12 years in captivity. From here

Not so bad you say?

Lawmaker Sigifredo Lopez, 45, who spent almost seven years in captivity was handed by the drugs funded group to a humanitarian delegation headed by Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba with Brazilian logistic support. The solicitor said that his fellow prisoners were murdered by FARC members during a "friendly fire" incident when guerrillas from another column marched into the camp where they were being held without warning or previous coordination. "It was a war crime, mere cowardice, paranoia, because rebels have strict orders that if they are about to loose their trophy (hostages) they must murder them, because loosing them is considered an act of cowardice", said Lopez in Cali on his return from the jungle in Red Cross helicopters supplied by Brazil with Brazilian pilots.

Lopez is the only survivor of twelve lawmakers that were kidnapped in April 2002 by FARC in Cali, when a guerrilla commando, acting and dressed as a Colombian Army and Police unit, ordered the evacuation of the provincial Congress building in Cali on the excuse of a bomb threat. The politicians were killed June 18, 2007 and at the time FARC blamed the Colombian Army alleging a failed attempt to release them. Colombian president Alvaro Uribe denied the charges from the first moment and accused the guerrillas of the murders.

Lopez confirmed there was no combat or rescue attempt from the Colombian forces and he survived simply because he had been isolated from the rest of the group, although in the same camp, for discussing with one of the rebel leaders. "I'm alive because I was lucky, because God exists; I was isolated to be punished and be chained for the rest of the year", said Lopez. The former member of the regional congress said he was not aware of the killing of his peers because when the two guerrilla columns began fighting he ducked to the floor and imagined the other eleven hostages had been spared.

However he later heard on the radio of the killings and asked a guerrilla to check the news with the commander. "I've been told to tell you that what you've heard is true?it was my greatest depression while in the jungle as a prisoner". A guerrilla solider later told him that when two shots were fired and answered the word went out that it was an Army patrol and "the commander ordered the hostages shot, and let's get out as fast as possible". The remains of the killed lawmakers were later unearthed by the Colombian Army and all of them had been shot at short range in the back and head with AK 47, the guerrillas' standard assault rifle. From here

Or how about this? Every Leftist loves child solders right?

According to a 1998 study on child warriors by Colombia’s government Human Rights Ombudsman, around 10 percent of total guerrilla forces consisted of under-18s, with that figure rising above 30 percent in some individual guerrilla combat units. The report gave no overall figure for paramilitary recruitment of minors, considered far less than among guerrilla groups. Colombia has signed but not yet ratified an additional protocol to international human law that seeks to raise the minimum age of recruitment by warring factions from 15 to 18.

In its human rights report for 2000, the U.S. State Department described appalling conditions facing child soldiers fighting with the guerrillas: "The FARC lured or forced hundreds of children into its ranks...Once recruited the children are virtual prisoners of their commanders and subject to various forms of abuse. Sexual abuse among girls is a particular problem."

Those accusations intensified in November and December last year as the army decimated a FARC combat column near the town of Surata, in northern Santander province. In weeks of fighting, the military killed 61 guerrillas and captured 120 others, many of whom deserted. At least 54 of those captured were badly trained and poorly motivated under-18s. Some of the shell-shocked youngsters paraded in front of TV cameras by army commanders said they had been lured into rebel ranks by false promises of wages or mistreated by rebel warlords. Or hey… not really a ‘war crime’ but an innocent man died

[quote] Orlando Zapata Tamayo wasn’t a prominent voice in Cuba’s small opposition movement. He wasn’t one of the dissident activists whom foreign reporters often call for quotes, and he didn’t have a blog or an academic degree.

But when the 42-year-old bricklayer died Feb. 23 after an 85-day hunger strike in prison, he made a powerful protest statement that has electrified the island’s fragmented dissident community and brought a flood of fresh criticism to Cuba’s human rights record.

From here

Of course, revolution is not cheap. Hundreds of millions have died in the name of marx… and many more will. As Che’ said:

“Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching.”

You know... like killing hostages and turning kids into solders.