For decades they have waged guerrilla warfare against such targets as landlords, businesspeople, politicians, and security forces, and they have disrupted infrastructure by damaging transportation, communication, and power lines.
In the last 12 years, with the secret support of the Pakistan military, Muslim rebels have waged guerrilla warfare against Indian security forces in Kashmir, who have responded with often brutal tactics.
The United Nations estimates that at least 7,000 civilians were killed in the bloody final push of the battle to defeat the rebels, known as the Tamil Tigers, who had waged guerrilla warfare for 25 years.
But in recent times crowds have plummeted as supporters have waged war with the Rangers board, and a power struggle for control of the reborn club has waged among various factions.
Here in Birchtown, archeologists have dug into the cellar hole of Stephen Blucke, a colonel in the "Black Brigade," a British unit that waged guerrilla war against rebels in New Jersey.
For two decades the Khmer Rouge waged guerrilla warfare against the government in Phnom Penh.
After the death of Morelos, Victoria waged guerrilla war against the Spaniards from the mountains around Veracruz and Puebla.
They razed the settlement and attacked Yanga and his followers, who took to the rainforest and waged guerrilla warfare against them.
The people of the mountains resisted invasion even more fiercely than their plains brethren: their greatest leader, Imam Shamil, waged guerrilla war for a quarter of a century.
When state and city officials set out this year to deal with the virus, which can cause encephalitis, they had clear advantages over last year, when people were felled by a strange illness, public health workers scurried to figure out how many people were actually infected and the city waged guerrilla warfare on mosquitoes, spraying at high financial and political cost.
The generation that waged guerrilla war against the French a half-century ago still wields power, now rich from oil but nationalist talk intact — providing both an irritant and a hold on the population, over half of which is under 30.
