Colombia’s female guerrillas hunt for their lost children

http://colombiareports.co/colombias-former-female-guerrilla-members-hunt-lost-children/

Demobilized female rebels, many of whom were forced into guerrilla groups against their will, are now searching for the children they were made to abandon, according to BBC Mundo reports.

Female rebels, “banned” from getting pregnant, are either subjected to coerced abortions or made to give up their babies after giving birth. Three mothers who were child soldiers themselves when they became pregnant told their stories on BBC World Broadcast Tuesday.

According to the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (ACR), 47,348 former rebels are in the process of reintegration, and nearly 4000 of them are women. The BBC reports that 56,000 former guerrilla members have left their rebel groups in the last 11 years, almost 7000 of them are women.

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The guerrilla group had previously attempted abortions on other women in their third trimester, but failed. “There had been cases where a woman was forced to have an abortion in the seventh or eighth month… Many women had died like that.”

Maria was allowed three months with her baby before she was forced to give it away.

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I recall how one chavista lambeculo here was impressed how women have joined the FARC's "struggle".