‘We were students negotiating with armed guerrillas for my father’s life’

“I remember on one occasion I had an exam,” says Robert. “There were some delays in the computer room in the university, I literally had to step out of the exam and say, ‘Teacher, I’m sorry, I have to leave.’ I probably was like the rudest brat in the class, because I just stepped out, but I mean I couldn’t tell them, ‘Look, I’m negotiating a kidnapping.'”

source: bbc.com