"The Colombian shouted, `The FARC! The FARC! Let's go!' But [Gonsalves and Stansell] said, `No, first we'll get our friends out,"' Botero said. "They got the pilots out, and when they finished doing so, the guerrillas arrived."
The rebels captured all five but separated the three from Janis and Cruz, the captives recounted to Botero. They later learned they had been killed. Stansell said they were too afraid to ask the guerrillas how Janis and Cruz had died.
Their bullet-riddled bodies were later recovered, and the US and Colombian governments have accused the FARC of executing them.
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