Peru to Investigate FARC Ties to Peruvian Rebels, Peru Defense Minister Flores Says

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Peru to Investigate FARC Ties to Peruvian Rebels, Peru Defense Minister Flores Says..

By Alex Emery

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Peru's government will use computer files from a Colombian rebel to investigate possible ties with local rebel groups, Peru's Defense Minister Antero Flores said.

Peru's intelligence service will study copies of e-mails exchanged between Peruvians and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Flores said in a Web site statement after meeting today with Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota.

The Colombian army seized three laptop computers during a cross-border raid into Ecuador in March that ended with the death of FARC second-in-command Raul Reyes. Reyes may have been in contact with Peru's Shining Path insurgency and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, Flores said.

The FARC was founded in 1964 as a rural, Marxist insurgency financed by kidnappings for ransom and involvement in Colombia's cocaine trade. The Shining Path began fighting in 1980 and the MRTA in 1984. Violence abated after most of the Peruvian groups' leaders were captured in the 1990s.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Emery in Lima at aemery1 at bloomberg.net

Last Updated: June 4, 2008 19:24 EDT


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