Their leaflets declared: "we are an army that fights for social demands and the dignity of our people".Germán Vargas Lleras, the interior minister, fears the Urabeños will sabotage a government scheme to restore to its owners some 6.6m hectares (16.3m acres) of land usurped by the AUC and guerrillas.
Each one, however, has a definitive status, marked by its condition as either land "usurped" decades previously, recently recuperated, or at the center of current disputes, occupied day and night by a rotating guard of community members.
Much common land, originally usurped by large landowners, was recovered, but this worked to the benefit of bourgeois notables known in the south as galantuomini ("honourable men").
As a fable, it has identifiable metaphors that are satisfying enough: the catalytic volcano stands for indigenous upheaval; the rape can be read as the struggle over and usurping of land; the father embodies a colonial era so neatly that rebels arrive at the farm's doorstep the morning he dies.
Governor Kempthorne filed suit to block the plan in January, in Federal District Court here, saying the plan usurped the state's right to regulate land use and interfered with its duty to protect its citizens.
"We believe Palestinian land has been usurped.
These were people who had usurped land from Indigenous Zimbabweans and over a period of almost a century, killed so many of us to keep it.
Sadly, some of these mountains and much of this land has been usurped by ISIS, as it was by other zealots before them.
Though many of the South American governments have laws to protect the Indians, their lands are often usurped.
In fact it was so hardy and produced more wine with less training that it threatened to usurp lands on which the great grand cru wines of Burgundy were grown.
