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The guerrilla camp where it all started was a silent ruin yesterday. Twisted remnants of shells and pink lipstick lay mashed in damp earth on the rim of a crater. The complex, big enough to house about 50 male and female rebels, included a kitchen...

]]> The guerrilla camp where it all started was a silent ruin yesterday. Twisted remnants of shells and pink lipstick lay mashed in damp earth on the rim of a crater. The complex, big enough to house about 50 male and female rebels, included a kitchen by a stream, an obstacle course, a flatscreen TV and a notebook containing grammar lessons, slogans and pinings for a lost love.

Last Saturday bombs rained on the camp, killing at least 24 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), including Raul Reyes, the most senior commander killed in 40 years of the group’s Marxist insurgency.

It was a significant victory for Colombia’s military. The trouble was, the camp was in Angostura, a mile inside Ecuador. Colombia had flagrantly violated a neighbour’s sovereignty.

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