Education
Nijmeijer studied Romance languages and Romance cultures at the University of Groningen.
Nijmeijer studied Romance languages and Romance cultures at the University of Groningen.
She has also been one of the group"s leading public figures since the discovery of her diary in 2007. She is part of the negotiating team involved in ongoing peace talks with the Colombian government. Tanja Nijmeijer was born on 13 February 1978 in Denekamp in the Netherlands.
In 1998 she went to Colombia and became an English teacher.
She later returned to the Netherlands and continued her university studies. In 2002, Nijmeijer returned to Colombia and in November joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ().
She became one of "s leading public figures from 2007 onwards, when a private journal she had been keeping was found by the Colombian military and became the focus of international news reports. In her journal Nijmeijer wrote about the hardships of, and her occasional disillusionment with life as a guerrilla.
Up until 2010, Nijmeijer was in a romantic relationship with a nephew of leader Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas.
She is charged with terrorism in the United States for allegedly participating in the kidnapping of three American citizens. If found guilty she would face up to 60 years in prison.
In Autumn 2012, she was named as a member of the delegation in the negotiations with the Colombian government in Oslo.