FARC terrorist leader "Timochenko" reads a declaration from the Marxist terrorist group's high command. 

BOGOTA - The National Police force of Colombia busted a kidnapping ring operated by the terrorist group FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaria de Colombia), officials announced on Thursday. 

The takedown of the kidnappers was the result of simultaneous raids in Bogota, Giron, Neiva and Santander.

According to Colombian security officials, those captured were part of a FARC kidnapping ring that had committed dozens of acts of kidnapping for the terrorist group. The FARC has long kidnapped poor Colombian children and forced them into its ranks, and recently kidnapped a 10-year-old girl by snatching her from her mother who was walking her to school. A 2011 report revealed the FARC policy of recruiting girls as young as 12 to serve as "sexual slaves" for the terror group's commanders.

According to the report, the ring was once headed by FARC terror leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, also known by his nom de guerre “Mono Jojoy," who was killed by the Colombian military in an airstrike in 2010.

The officials also said that testimony from former hostages indicated that some of the terrorist kidnappers were also involved in the 1998 terrorist attack on Colombia's presidential palace, Miraflores, which killed 19 soldiers, and led to the kidnapping of 129 soldiers and policemen.

Besides kidnapping, the FARC is known for narcotrafficking, which produces 80 percent of the cocaine that reaches the United States. It has also used the proceeds of that narcotrafficking to fund the campaigns of left-wing politicians in Latin America such as Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.