Mr. Santos said that the ideas the guerrillas fought for did not resonate with most Colombians, and that he doubted that the FARC would be able to reinvent itself as a political organization.
Falintil guerrillas fought for independence, and their cause captured world attention in 1991 when Indonesian forces opened fire on a memorial procession in the capital, Dili, killing at least 250 people.
After the warrant was disclosed in April, the guerrillas fought the American military for two months before the two sides reached a truce when the United States agreed not to try to capture or kill Mr. Sadr.
In the 1950s, during the struggle for independence, he helped found the TMT, the Turkish Resistance Organisation, a paramilitary group even then promoting partition of the island in reaction to the Greek-Cypriot Eoka guerrillas' fight for enosis – the union of Cyprus with Greece.
During the war, which ended in 1992, F.M.L.N. guerrillas fought the American-backed military, while Arena argued for a free hand in defeating them.
Its defense force is to grow to 1,500 soldiers, many of them former guerrillas who fought for independence from Indonesia, which was achieved in a referendum two years ago.
Many Communist leaders and the Islamic guerrillas who fought for years to overthrow them studied at the University of Kabul, at exactly the same time in the 1960's.
Mr Portillo, a populist once close to the left-wing guerrillas who fought for 36 years, until December 1996, in the country's civil war, won the top job on the ticket of the Guatemalan Republican Front FRGGuatemalan Republican Front FRG
In general, he and others suggested, there is simply a tendency to put an optimistic gloss on events here and to avoid confrontation with former guerrillas who fought for independence for Kosovo or with increasingly active gangs of organized criminals.
Emma Daly (NYT) ASIA EAST TIMOR: FORMING AN ARMY -- Guerrillas who fought for independence from Indonesia have become the core of a new army for the territory as it moves toward self-rule under United Nations administration.
The early releases of more than 400 men are meant to bring guerrillas who fought for and against British rule in line with the 1998 peace settlement that has created a power-sharing government in Belfast.
