Sentence examples for they were guerrillas from inspiring English sources

On hearing that counterinsurgent troops were on their way, the people of El Mozote decided to stay put so as not to arouse suspicion that they were guerrillas.

Mr Kagame was Mr Museveni's intelligence chief in the early 1980s, when they were guerrillas in the bush fighting the dictatorship in Uganda.But when the two men met this week at a Ugandan safari lodge, their comradeship was fraying.

I have nothing to do with it".The Milan judge, Clementina Forleo, was hitherto loathed by the right for her controversial acquittal in January 2005 of three men accused of recruiting suicide-bombers for Iraq, on the ground that they were "guerrillas" rather than "terrorists".

Soldiers who said they accidentally killed a peasant family of five after firing on them from a long distance, in the mistaken belief that they were guerrillas, actually shot at least one of the victims at point-blank range, the country's Internal Affairs office said in a report obtained by The New York Times.

It's a similar story in the working-class Soacha suburb of Bogotá, where mothers of young men abducted and murdered by soldiers who falsely claimed they were guerrillas to qualify for bonuses weep as they describe years of campaigning to have those responsible brought to justice.

Col Donato was in hiding and did not initially respond to calls from soldiers, as he feared they were guerrillas, Colombian media reported.

They swept in in the 1990s on the heels of rightwing paramilitaries who killed and evicted peasants from their fields of corn and yucca, claiming they were guerrilla sympathisers.

In the north on Saturday, American soldiers killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded two, thinking they were guerrilla fighters, according to news agency reports that quoted police officers in the area.

The army often claims they are guerrillas killed in combat.

Gingrich's majority leadership never seemed entirely at ease with power; they are guerrillas who won the lottery.

"The people doing the buying don't say they are guerrillas, so how are you going to prohibit a shopowner from selling his products to them?" Brazil is also growing in importance as a source of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture cocaine.