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 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is forced to sleep chained by her neck as punishment for having tried to escape from her rebel captors five times, an escaped hostage told family members of the dual French-Colombian citizen.
Deploring these "concentration camp" conditions, an angry President Alvaro Uribe ordered his military to intensify efforts Friday to free Betancourt and three American military contractors being held by leftist rebels.
The high-profile prisoners and eight more hostages were being held in the same Amazon jungle camp from where police officer Jhon Frank Pinchao escaped April 28, after eight years in captivity of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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