But over three years between 1987 and 1990, Unión Patriótica was systematically wiped out by rightwing death squads.
When FARC created a political party in the 1980s, La Unión Patriótica (Patriotic Union), its leaders were systematically wiped out by paramilitary assassins.
"What will become of a society that, for the most part, sits quietly as its messiahs are systematically wiped out?" said an editorial in the newspaper Dawn on Friday.
"The use of Tibetan is being systematically wiped out as part of China's strategy to cement its occupation of Tibet," Free Tibet said.
Marin's recalcitrance may have come from his bitter experience in the 1980s, when the Patriotic Union party, which he helped form as a step toward peace, was systematically wiped out by paramilitary militias acting with the Colombian military.
Yet, it was in the notorious concentration camps of that country -- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka -- that most of the 6 million murdered Jews were systematically wiped out during the Holocaust.
Those arrests are just one of the issues that spurred former US congressman Joseph Cao into calling Vietnam, "The worst violator of human rights in Southeast Asia" (and that's including Burma, a country where the Rohingya Muslim minority are being systematically wiped out, allegedly with tacit approval from the government).
The men and women who are trying to bring down the new Iraqi state are systematically wiping out its political class.
His assassins were members of one of future dictator General Franco's death squads, " la escuadra negra " or "black squadron", who were systematically wiping out suspected leftwingers.
