Tanja Nijmeijer
Political activist and squatter
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- Tanja Nijmeijer ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɑɲaː ˈnɛimɛiər] ; born 13 February 1978), also known as Alexandra Nariño , is a Dutch former guerrilla and English teacher who has been a member of the Colombian guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since 2002.
- She was part of the negotiating team involved in unsuccessful peace talks with the Colombian government.
- Nijmeijer studied Romance languages and Romance cultures at the University of Groningen.
- She later returned to the Netherlands and continued her university studies.
- She became one of FARC's leading public figures from 2007 onwards, when a private journal she had been keeping was found by the Colombian military and became the focus of international news reports.
Tanja Nijmeijer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɑɲaː ˈnɛimɛiər]; born 13 February 1978), also known as Alexandra Nariño, is a Dutch former guerrilla and English teacher who has been a member of the Colombian guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since 2002. She has also been one of the group's leading public figures since the discovery of her diary in 2007. She was part of the negotiating team involved in unsuccessful peace talks with the Colombian government.
Early life and education
Tanja Nijmeijer was born on 13 February 1978 in Denekamp in the Netherlands.
Nijmeijer studied Romance languages and Romance cultures at the University of Groningen. In 1998 she went to Colombia and became an English teacher. She later returned to the Netherlands and continued her university studies.
FARC
In 2002, Nijmeijer returned to Colombia and in November joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). She became one of FARC's leading public figures from 2007 onwards, when a private journal she had been keeping was found by the Colombian military and became the focus of international news reports. In her journal Nijmeijer wrote about the hardships of, and her occasional disillusionment with life as a guerrilla. Up until 2010, Nijmeijer was in a romantic relationship with a nephew of FARC leader Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas.
In Autumn 2012, she was named as a member of the FARC delegation in the negotiations with the Colombian government in Oslo.
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