These murders, in effect reprisals against local Maoist guerrillas, who have also killed many, reached a bloody climax with the deaths of 58 men, women and children with no connection to extremism in the village of Lakshman Bathe in 1998.
Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – "crowbar" in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa's apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia.
But the guerrillas' recent actions have infuriated Colombian officials.
The Farc need constant reassurance because they are very, very mistrustful Michael Shifter Several US officials have suggested privately that diplomatic relations would not be affected if Colombia choses to desist from extraditing demobilized guerrillas.
From the children of the suburbs, one never knows what to expect.We may think of those brought up in communes by impossible radicals, conceptual artists and urban guerrillas as leading the more exciting and enviable lives.
The one-day death toll was the Israeli military's highest since a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
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Many blame the lack of progress on the ongoing peace process between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), whose guerrillas have been fighting Ankara for the past 30 years, as well as AK party blunders in Syria.
In the course of that redefinition of US strategic posture, the military strategists and their intelligence community colleagues came to regard US rights to communications privacy as the equivalent of sanctuary for guerrillas.
The Farc had been pushing for a bilateral ceasefire but Santos has long rejected such an option amid criticism from conservative opponents and military officials who say it would allow the guerrillas to regroup after a decade of heavy battlefield losses.
Even now, three decades after the collapse of the dictatorship, some Argentinians defend the military's campaign against Cuban-inspired guerrinlas in the 1970s, but even the most die-hard reactionaries draw the line at the baby-snatching cases.
