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BOGOTA,Colombia-President Alvaro Uribe(picture left) said Tuesday that his government would ask the International Criminal Court to try Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for financing and supporting Colombia's main rebel group while it was engaging in genocide.The Uribe government claims documents found in the laptop of a slain commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia indicate Chavez's government recently gave $300 million to the group known as the FARC."Colombia is proposing that the International Criminal Court charge Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, for the support and financing of genocide," Uribe told journalists after meeting with an ex-congresswoman who was recently freed by the FARC after more than six years as a hostage.The United States and the European Union classify the FARC as an international terrorist organization.Uribe did not explain what arguments against Chavez would be presented to the Netherlands-based court.Colombia has also halted trade to Venezuela at points along the border amid the diplomatic crisis, Reuters reported.The Colombian government said documents found in the laptop of Raul Reyes, a senior FARC leader killed Saturday in a raid on a guerrilla camp just inside Ecuador, show that Chavez's ties with the rebels date back more than a decade....To read more go to:
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