Betancourt vows to not cut hair until FARC frees all hostages

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

BOGOTA (AFP) — Colombian politician and former hostage Ingrid Betancourt vowed in an interview broadcast here late Tuesday not to cut her hair until the FARC rebels in Colombia's jungle free all her fellow captives.

Betancourt, who was rescued last week from Colombian Marxist guerrillas after six years in captivity and is now with her family in France, made the vow in an interview with Caracol television from her hotel in Paris.

"I am not going to cut my hair until the day that the last of my fellow prisoners returns home," she said, one week after she was freed together with 14 others in a daring and dramatic rescue by Colombian commandos last Wednesday.

The 15 were part of a group of at least 39 prisoners, civilians and soldiers, that the Armed...