Dramatic video shows Colombian military operation that killed FARC's top leader
Reuters
2014-10-21
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November 4, 2011. The jungles of Cauca, Columbia.
A military bombing campaign was underway against the leader of Latin America's longest-running insurgency...the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC.
Newly-released video obtained by Colombian television shows the dramatic operation as it happened.
This is the man the troops were after -- Marxist rebel boss Alfonso Cano.
The military credits this unidentified soldier with killing Cano, although he says at the time he didn't realize it was the FARC leader he had shot.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER WHO KILLED FARC LEADER ALIAS ALFONSO CANO, SAYING:
"He gets up and tries to run. Obviously, the first thing I thought is that he was going to shoot at me, he's my enemy. I fired because my security comes first, my life and that of my colleagues."
Cano's death was the biggest blow to FARC in its five decade-old civil war.
By the time Cano was killed, the rebel group was alre
A military bombing campaign was underway against the leader of Latin America's longest-running insurgency...the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC.
Newly-released video obtained by Colombian television shows the dramatic operation as it happened.
This is the man the troops were after -- Marxist rebel boss Alfonso Cano.
The military credits this unidentified soldier with killing Cano, although he says at the time he didn't realize it was the FARC leader he had shot.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER WHO KILLED FARC LEADER ALIAS ALFONSO CANO, SAYING:
"He gets up and tries to run. Obviously, the first thing I thought is that he was going to shoot at me, he's my enemy. I fired because my security comes first, my life and that of my colleagues."
Cano's death was the biggest blow to FARC in its five decade-old civil war.
By the time Cano was killed, the rebel group was alre
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