The Dutch Tanja Nijmeijer, known for her fight for the Colombian guerillamovement Farc, got married yesterday. In the city of Cali, she gave her yes toBoris Guevara, just like her a former guerrilla fighter. The Dutch artistTinkebell was one of the guests.
They swore eternal love to each other in a solemn ceremony attended by familyand friends, Colombian magazine reports. semana. According to photographerAlexa Rochi, a former guerrilla fighter who, like Nijmeijer, was involved inthe peace agreement between the rebel movement and the Colombian authoritiesin 2016, Tanja used her mother’s wedding dress. She kept the dress for 50years, waiting for one of her daughters to get married in it. And look whathappened: I finally wear the dress on my 44th,” the magazine heard the Dutchsay in a short speech. Her mother was also present at the ceremony.
Nijmeijer and Guevara also celebrated that he recently obtained his diploma invisual communication at the Javeriana University in Calí. “Today I completed acycle in my life,” said Boris. “I validated my experience in design andcommunication, forged in the heat of the armed struggle of the former Farc.”
One of the wedding guests was Victoria Sandino, former peace negotiator inHavana, Cuba and former senator of the Farc-derived political party. FuerzaAlternativa Revolucionaria del Comun (Alternative People’s RevolutionaryForce), nowadays Comunes called. Sandino referred to the couple’s union onher social networks, assuring that love can be built from peace.
“What a thrill to share the joy of my friends and comrades in celebratingtheir marriage, all the happiness for them, that peace is a reason to buildlove,” she wrote on Instagram.
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Tinkebell
The Dutch Katinka Simonse, better known as the artist Tinkebell, was alsopresent at the wedding. She has been a friend of Nijmeijer’s since last yearand was now ‘in charge of the rings’, which she took with her in a box made ofAmsterdam city wood. In her column in the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool shewrites ‘never cried so much as last weekend’. In a column from November 2021,she already called Nijmeijer ‘a hero’. At that time, the artist came under alot of criticism.
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Nijmeijer, who in her Farc days was known to the outside world as ‘AlexandraNariño’, met her future husband in 2013 during the peace negotiations in Cuba.After a relationship of nine years, they decided to get married.
injustice
Nijmeijer joined the Farc in 2002. During a tour through Colombia, the then24-year-old Denekampse was impressed by the social injustice of the poorpeasant population. After completing her studies in Romance languages andcultures in Groningen, she returned to the South American country. With heraccession she thought she could fight for the ‘good cause’, but the guerrillamovement turned out to be engaged in illegal and punishable practices.’Ellen’, her nickname among the guerrilla fighters, radicalized and wasinvolved in, among other things, attacks in the Colombian capital Bogota. In2007, her diary was found after an attack by the Colombian army on the formerguerrilla camp where she had been staying.
Most of the approximately 7,000 guerrillas surrendered their weapons after thepeace agreement in 2016. This put an end to terror that had lasted more thanhalf a century. Nijmeijer turned her back on her former combatants at thebeginning of 2020.
Sell agricultural products
A prominent female politician from the party of Colombian ex-president IvánDuque called the Dutch a liar in May last year. The ex-guerillas reported onTwitter about violence by the national police and the army against theindigenous population during anti-government demonstrations.
Nijmeijer’s autobiography was published at the end of last year. In it, shelooked back on her Farc days and said that her future lies in Calí, where she,together with Boris and a few other people, has set up a cooperativeenterprise that aims to promote the sale of agricultural products.