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Betancourt, in France, Details Her Captivity
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In comments to Europe 1 radio, she said that her captors had chained her day and night for the first three years, but that she was sustained by her Roman Catholic faith and thoughts of her family. “I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years,” she said. “I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.”
Asked if she had been tortured, she said, “Yes, yes,” and said her captors had fallen into “diabolical behavior,” adding, “It was so monstrous I think they themselves were disgusted.” She called her rescue “a miracle of the Virgin Mary” and said, “You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.” She had made herself a wooden rosary in the jungle, she said.
Pope Benedict XVI has invited her to meet him next week. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/wo...html?th&emc=th
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I am amazed she made it out alive. Hope she can live a relatively normal life, poor girl.
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