Sentence examples for guerrillas camp from inspiring English sources

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The crisis began when Colombian security forces hunted down and killed Raúl Reyes, the FARC's second-in-command, and 23 others in a raid last weekend on the guerrillas' camp in Ecuador.

The dispute erupted after Colombian forces crossed into Ecuador last Saturday to kill Raúl Reyes, a senior commander of the FARC, and 23 others at the guerrillas' camp in Ecuadorean territory.

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Those who are kidnapped may spend months in the guerrillas' camps while arranging payment of the ransom for their release.And worse is to come.

Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe must have known that - his dubious "hot pursuit" defence notwithstanding - an attack on Farc guerrillas camped in Ecuador would trigger an international crisis.

Early on while he was in custody, under pressure from his Army interrogators, Bustos drew portraits of the guerrillas who were still at large, as well as maps of the guerrillas' camps and cave hideouts.

Prized for his ingenuity and natural powers of persuasion, Lim becomes the protégé of elderly textile magnate Tiger Tan, whose business activities provide a front for the squads of communist guerrillas camped in the mountains to resist the Japanese occupation.

Gen. Henry E. McCulloch, in command in North Texas, where Quantrill's guerrillas camped, was eager for the extra men but did not want to "sanction a savage, inhuman warfare, in which men are to be shot down like dogs, after throwing down their arms and holding up their hands supplicating for mercy".

It is as unlike a guerrilla camp as is possible to imagine.

Llorente also recalled visiting Castro's guerrilla camp in 1958, when the Batista government was close to falling.

Five years ago some Arabs asked permission to open a guerrilla camp in Tirah, similar to the ones operating in Afghanistan.

In March, the army bombed a guerrilla camp just over the border in Ecuador, killing Raúl Reyes, a member of the group's seven-man secretariat.

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