Dutch Woman Joins Guerrillas in Colombia (and now she hates it!)

http://wral.com/news/national_world/world/story/2084603/ ^ | November 25, 2007 | JOSHUA GOODMAN

[navyguy]

BOGOTA, Colombia — The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched.

"I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.

Colombia's government couldn't have hoped for better propaganda against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. It leaked excerpts from the diary found last June to the media, even making available an English translation of the Dutch entries.

The first known person from outside Latin America to join the region's largest rebel army wasn't just disillusioned. Like most FARC foot soldiers, Tanja Nijmeijer apparently wasn't permitted to leave.

"This would be worth it if I knew I was fighting for something. But I don't really believe that anymore," she wrote on November 24, 2006, according to the excerpts released by the government.

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More than a dozen friends, former colleagues and fellow peace activists interviewed by The Associated Press described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life.

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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.

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[navyguy]

The article states that her friends don't understand how she went from Left wing "peace" activist to gun toting Communist rebel. But I suspect everyone here on Free Republic understands EXACTLY how it happened.

[AppyPappy]

Yeah, she thought she would be feeding and housing the poor while taking up arms when the oppressors came to kill the children. Instead, she is humping a gun for a bunch of corrupt businessmen who are trying to gain power through firepower.

[TexGuy]

... described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life.

LOL ... That quote is almost too funny to be true! The whole story makes me laugh at the Left.

[Global2010]

Yep.

[padre35]

from peace activist to gun toting commie...

Wow, didn’t see that one coming...lol

[CAP811]

"Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?"

Ferrari's got breast implants....and eat caviar????????????

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

["More than a dozen friends, former colleagues and fellow peace activists...described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life."]

In other words, another "useful idiot".

[Gay State Conservative]

"I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.

Sounds like she's lost that revolutionary fervor.And the fun thing is if her new best friends find out they'll leave her in the jungle with a bullet in the back of her head.

[RDTF]

they all walk that slippery slope daily and are too full of koolaid to see it.

[CZB]

If Jane Fonda had hung around in Hanoi a few more weeks...

[mort56]

We all reap what we sow. This vapid woman is no different.

[Enterprise]

"But I suspect everyone here on Free Republic understands EXACTLY how it happened."

True! Bump!

[Polybius]

More than a dozen friends, former colleagues and fellow peace activists interviewed by The Associated Press described a young woman deeply disturbed by social inequalities and guilt-ridden over her privileged life.

So, which is it?

Is she a "peace activist" or is she a foreigner coming from the Netherlands to Colombia to kill Colombians she politically disagrees with?

[Mr. Mojo]

A leftist idealist gets smacked upside the head with reality and becomes disillusioned. An old story. If more of her comrades in armchairs (in Europe and America) would do what she did and immerse themselves in real communism for a while there'd be far fewer commies in the world.

[Charlespg]

"I'm tired, tired of the FARC, tired of the people, tired of communal living. Tired of never having anything for myself," wrote the author, a 29-year-old Dutch woman.

Reality Sucks doesn't it you silly bitch

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No duh. It ain't summer camp sweetheart.

Do I care what happens to this little twit? Sorry. When it comes to Marxist terrorists my give a damn is busted.

[LdSentinal]

Google says this is her.

[flying Elvis]

Pics here.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Tanja+Nijmeijer&gbv=2

[purpleraine]

Instead of joining these commies, she should have given all of her money and possessions away and joined a convent.

[Steely Tom]

I think we’ve got a candidate for a Darwin Award on deck here. I suspect it won’t be long till we know for sure.