According to Claudia Calle, spokesperson for País Libre, a Colombian foundation for victims of abductions, the ELN is responsible for the death of 153 hostages between 2000 and 2007.

According to País Libre, ELN abducted over 3, 000 people between 2000 and 2007 and currently still holds 240 people captive.

According to the Spanish daily El País, Gusinsky told the four Spanish policemen who came to arrest him at his home in the luxury Atlantic resort of Sotogrande: " You are making a big mistake.

According to the Spanish daily El País, files released by the US National Archives and Records Administration show that, following the left-wing Carnation Revolution coup in Portugal on 25 April 1974, Arias met with the United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll in March 1975 and offered to invade Portugal in order to stop the spread of Communism.

According to El País, in 2001, fans saluted him with their ' white handkerchiefs ' ( as a terrace favourite ) after he acrobatically scored a ' wonder goal ' against Real Oviedo that year.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

According to a December report by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris NGO, 473 FARC-EP guerrillas and 357 members of the Colombian security forces died in combat between January and September 2010.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, the squad killed 26 in the South and 71 in the North, making a total of 97 victims.

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.

According to the One World Trust's Global Accountability Report 2008 which assessed a range of organisations in areas such as transparency, stakeholder participation and evaluation capacity, " IFOAM is the highest scoring international NGO, and at the top of the 30 organisations this year with a score of 71 percent ".

According to a 2003 estimate by the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, the population was 1, 230, 140.

According to some US NGO reports, there were also several hundred Iranian Revolutionary Guards assisting the Bosnian government during the war.

According to the NGO UN Watch, Syria's candidacy would be virtually assured of victory due to the prevailing system of elections.

According to NGO Americas Watch in 1986 100 people a month were dying in the conflict at that time.

According to American non-governmental organization ( NGO ), Freedom House, these reforms consolidated Russia as a politically non-free, authoritarian state since the mid-2000s.

According to The Guardian, these include the U. S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute.

According to NGO Monitor, a self-described monitor of Israeli civil society, foreign government funding constituted about 67 % of the total budget (~ 4 million NIS ) in 2007, and about 56 % in 2009.

According to the international NGO Free the Slaves, some of the reasons these activities persist despite anti-slavery and anti-trafficking laws is the lack of funding for law enforcement, the lack of a strong social stigma against the practice, and the lucrative nature of the business.

According to its statutes, JEF is a non-partisan and non-denominational European NGO.

According to an Amnesty International report from 2009: " In June, the Estonian Security Police Board published its annual report which made serious allegations against the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights ( LICHR ), an NGO promoting and defending the rights of those belonging to linguistic minorities.

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, the squad killed 26 in the South and 71 in the North, making a total of 97 victims.

According to the NGO Memoria y Justicia, " it is believed that Lagos ’ denunciation brought a halt to the spiral of murders.

According to the NGO, a Palestinian without a permit will be classified as an " infiltrator ".

According to NGO Monitor HaMoked budget in 2000-2001 equalled to $ 2, 837, 000.

According to a 2011 article in The Forward, HaMoked received, in 2009, $ 300, 000 from the " Ramallah-based NGO Development Center ( NDC )" which in turn, had received funding from the " Geneva-headquartered Welfare Association.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

According to the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1, 300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on Little Cayman.

According to the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, he has 2 million known and registered descendants, and there are an estimated 3 million in all.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to the organisers, an estimated 250, 000 turned out into the streets.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to rankings provided by the United States Census Bureau-International Data Base ( IDB )-Country Rankings, Latvia is estimated to have a population of 1, 544, 000 in the year 2050.

According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

According to the 2000 Census, an estimated 400, 000 Native Americans reside on reservation land.

According to CIA Factbook, Romania total road network is estimated to be 198, 817 km long, out of which 60, 043 km are paved and 138, 774 km ( 2004 ) are unpaved.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

According to Fyfe, " it was estimated in 1789 that 74, 000 slaves were exported annually from West Africa, about 38, 000 by British firms.

According to the Encyclopedia of African History, " It is estimated that by the 1890s the largest slave population of the world, about 2 million people, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate.

According to Sir Henry Bartle Frere ( who sat on the Viceroy's Council ), there were an estimated 8 or 9 million slaves in India in 1841.

According to the International Labor Organization ( ILO ), an estimated 800, 000 people are subject to forced labour in Myanmar.

According to George Modelski, Ayutthaya is estimated to have been the largest city in the world in 1700 CE, with a population of around 1 million.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million.

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day making it the most feared day and date in history.

According to the May 2005 Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Perchlorate Report, an EPA official has estimated about 10 million people may have been exposed to perchlorate through their drinking water.

According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 180 in 2000.

According to tradition, Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for goods to the value of 60 Dutch guilders, which in the 19th century was estimated to be the equivalent of $ 1000 USD.