Incident Date:
January 18, 2013
January 18, 2013 - August 27, 2013
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Norosi Colombia
Perpetrators: National Liberation Army (ELN)
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Leftist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Gas/oil)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims:
Perpetrators:
Description: "01/18/2013: Six mine workers – including three Colombian nationals, two Peruvian nationals and one Canadian national – were kidnapped by suspected National Liberation Army (ELN) militants at a gold mine in an unspecified location in Colombia’s Bolivar department. Colombia’s Armed forces commander, General Alejandro Navas, stated they suspected the mine workers were kidnapped as the ELN “have an interest in drawing the government's attention to initiate talks”. Navas also stated he did not rule out that the kidnapping was carried out to serve the group’s economic interests. The Colombian and Peruvian hostages were released on 02/15/2013. The commander of the Colombian army, General Sergio Mantilla, announced on 02/14/2013 that an agreement had been reached for the release of six civilian hostages, including a Canadian and two Peruvian nationals, in Bolivar department. They were released unharmed by the group to representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in an unspecified location in Colombia on 02/15/2013. However, the group continued to hold 47-year-old Canadian national Gernot Erich Wober. The ELN announced on 07/29/2013 that it would soon release a Canadian hostage in its custody, after his employer, gold mining firm Braeval had conceded not to continue its operations in Colombia’s Bolivar province. Wober was released unharmed into the care of the ICRC in a rural area of Colombia’s Bolivar department on 08/27/2013."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) GTD 2006-2013 datafile
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