[Badgirlz-list] Reuters: Near-Naked Women Won't Be Drafted i…

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> >December 02, 2002
> >
> >Rebels are saved from bikini poster assault
> >by David Sharrock
>
><http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-499673,00.html>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-499673,00.html
> >
> >
> >Bogotá: The Colombian Army s plan to bombard
> Marxist guerrillas in the
> >jungle with photographs of bikini-clad women had a
> distinctly Latin
> >American flavour.
> >But three days after Operation Bikini went public,
> Marta Lucía Ramírez,
> >the nation s first female Defence Minister, said
> that she was cancelling
> >the campaign because of feminist protests.
> >Thousands of pocket-sized portraits have been
> printed, but, officially at
> >least, they will never be air-dropped over
> battlefields. Desert! And
> >obtain benefits, reads the slogan above and
> alongside a brunette
> >stretching provocatively in a striped bikini.
> >The portraits were taken from an internet
> pornography site, the Army has
> >admitted. Colombian models refused to pose because
> they feared that they
> >would become targets for the Revolutionary Armed
> Forces of Colombia (Farc).
> >I, as a woman, add myself to this protest. I also
> don t like these
> >calendars, Señora Ramírez, who in her youth
> modelled to pay her way
> >through university, said.
> >Señora Ramírez said that the posters did not fit
> within the Government s
> >concept of rehabilitating these boys, re-
> socialising them and making them
> >useful to society .
> >About 70 per cent of the more than 20,000 Farc
> guerrillas are men.
> >
> >
> >Near-Naked Women Won't Be Drafted in Colombian War
> >Sun Dec 1,10:38
> >
> >
> >BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Busty, bikini-clad
> models won't be
> >air-dropped into Colombia's combat zones, after
> all.
> >
> >
> >The war-torn Andean nation's first female defense
> minister, Marta Lucia
> >Ramirez, canceled the army's campaign to seduce
> Marxist rebel defectors
> >with pictures of near-naked women.
> >
> >
> >In the thousands of pocket-sized portraits already
> printed, and waiting to
> >be air-dropped over battlefields, the voluptuous
> vixens were presented as
> >a perk for desertion.
> >
> >
> >"Desert! And obtain benefits," read one pamphlet,
> depicting a brunette
> >stretching provocatively in a striped bikini.
> >
> >
> >An army officer, who declined to be named, said the
> portraits were taken
> >from an Internet porn site.
> >
> >
> >"I, as a woman, add myself to this protest. I also
> don't like these
> >calendars," said Ramirez, herself a former teenage
> covergirl, who modeled
> >fully dressed for a glossy Colombian magazine while
> she was in college.
> >
> >
> >Ramirez told local press the posters did not fit
> within the government's
> >concept of "rehabilitating these boys,
> re-socializing them, and making
> >them useful to society."
> >
> >
> >Of Colombia's more than 20,000 Marxist rebels,
> about 70 percent are men --
> >stacking the odds against the male fighters, many
> of whom are still in
> >their teens.
> >
> >
> >To have sexual relations with a female rebel, male
> guerrillas must first
> >ask permission from higher-ranking officers. The
> rules of engagement are
> >painstakingly detailed on the Web site,
> ><http://www.farc-ep.org>www.farc-ep.org, of the
> country's largest rebel
> >army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,
> or FARC.
> >
> >
> >The rebels have been fighting for nearly four
> decades to impose a
> >socialist state. The conflict claims thousands of
> lives a year.
> >
> >
> >
>


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