Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

The military also suffered several setbacks in its fight against the guerrillas, when several of its rural bases began to be overrun and a record number of soldiers and officers were taken prisoner by the FARC ( which since 1982 was attempting to implement a more " conventional " style of warfare, seeking to eventually defeat the military in the field ).

However, after nearly three years of raids by the Sahrawi guerrillas of the Polisario Front, Mauritania's economic and political stability began to crumble.

In the early 1980s, President Belisario Betancur began discussing the possibility of peace talks with the guerrillas.

On 15 December 2003 the Royal Bhutan Army began military operations against guerrilla camps in southern Bhutan, in coordination with Indian armed forces who lined the border to the south to prevent the guerrillas from dispersing back into Assam.

Despite this, matsetela ( 2000 ) stated that the process was then halted and the situation began to reverse itself, as the subsequent violent actions of drug lords, paramilitaries, guerrillas and opportunistic large landowners severely contributed to a renewed concentration of land and to the displacement of small landowners.

Beginning in March, 1957, the Royal Lao Army began shuttling arms to Hmong guerrillas, to enable them to fight on the side of the RLA.

This led to counter-escalation, as the United States began airdropping arms to a force of 7, 000 Hmong guerrillas later in the month.

Following the coup d ' état in Portugal in 1974, the new left-wing revolutionary government of Portugal began to negotiate with the African pro-independence guerrillas.

The offensive began with Operation Junction City, where the American units assigned had destroyed hundreds of tons of rice, killed 720 guerrillas, and captured 213 prisoners.

By the end of the decade, the party created its own militia and soon clashes began with the rising Palestinian militant guerrillas.

In response, the guerrillas began to use anti-aircraft artillery within the city itself.

Starting in early 1917, the Hashemite guerrillas began attacking the Hejaz railroad.

The nation of Colombia began violently — from Bolivarian wars for independence from empire to the contemporary Marxist – Leninist guerrillas of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia ( FARC: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ).

Armed struggle against the Portuguese began in March 1962 with an abortive attack by PAIGC guerrillas on Praia.

The following year, Portugal began a new campaign against the guerrillas with the arrival of the new governor of the colony, António de Spínola.

However, in 1970, the FAP began to use similar weapons to those the US was using in the Vietnam War: napalm and defoliants, the former to destroy guerrillas when they could find them, the latter to decrease the number of ambushes that occurred when they could not.

During the Algerian Civil War, which began in 1992 as Islamist guerrillas attacked the military government which had annulled an Islamist electoral victory, thousands of people had forcibly disappeared.

Contrary to popular belief, Duarte did not offer to have the negotiations ; instead, the negotiations began because Duarte accepted a long-standing offer by the guerrillas.

The new FDN also began assimilating the MILPAS movement, bands led by disenchanted former MAP-ML guerrillas.

The guerrillas began adopting new and more complex tactics, such as the planting of IEDs ( concealed bombs usually placed on the roadside ), the use of mortars, and better-planned ambushes.

The large numbers of innocent Iraqis detained during the raids, the removal of palm trees and other foliage to deprive guerrillas of cover for ambushes ( and which represented the livelihoods of many farmers ) and the failure to restore basic services such as water and electricity to pre-war levels began increasing the nationalist resistance amongst the Sunnis and began resulting in the disillusionment of an Iraqi populace that was initially largely grateful.

When the government then banned the FIS and arrested thousands of its members, Islamist guerrillas rapidly emerged and began an armed campaign against the government and its supporters which became the Algerian Civil War.

US soldiers search Vietnamese homes for Vietcong guerrillas.

Recognizable by their M38A1 MD Jeeps with wire cutters installed on front and painted in blue-and-white National Police colours, BECAT teams were frequently employed in raids at Nicaraguan urban slums in search for hidden guerrillas, and quickly earned an unenviable reputation for brutality.

One account indicates that a military search for guerrillas in the forest was underway when the massacre started.

Mucci dictated that none of the Rangers could be spared to search for him, so he sent several guerrillas to do so in the morning.

The guerrillas scattered for cover.

They later discovered nearly all of the food they had been destroying was not being produced for guerrillas ; it was, in reality, only being grown to support the local civilian population.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

It may be tempting for the counter-insurgent side to simply declare guerrillas " terrorists " and pursue a harsh liquidation strategy.

While outside aid or even troops can be helpful, lack of clear limits, in terms of either a realistic plan for victory or exit strategy, may find the foreign helper " taking over " the local war, and being sucked into a lengthy commitment, thus providing the guerrillas with valuable propaganda opportunities as the toll of dead foreigners mounts.

Impatient demands for victory centered around short-term electoral cycles play into the hands of the guerrillas, though it is equally important to recognize when a cause is lost and the guerrillas have won.

Led by Abaz Kupi, it largely consisted of Geg guerrillas, supplied mainly with weapons from the allies, who withdrew their support for the NLM after the communists renounced Albania's claims on Kosovo.

It started as communist party that was working together and searching for direction from the Vietnamese guerrillas who were fighting their own civil war.

Through the agreement with Mauritania, Morocco sought to tighten its control over the Western Sahara by denying the Polisario one more avenue for infiltrating guerrillas into the disputed territory.

Variations include the longer and more pointed iták intended for combat, and it was also used during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish colonial authorities, later becoming a signature weapon of guerrillas in the Philippine-American War ; the longest variation, called a kampilan, was used by the ancient sultanates of Mindanao.

On 5 March 1975, a Montoneros bomb detonates in the underground parking at Plaza Colón of the Argentine Army High Command and a garbage truck driver, Alberto Blas García is killed and 28 others are wounded, including four colonels and 18 other ranks. On 3 June 1975, Montoneros guerrillas murdered Raul Amelong, manager of the Acindar steel firm in Rosario, in reprisal for alleged repression against striking employes.

During the Operation Primicia a Montonero force numbering perhaps several hundred guerrillas and militants hijacked of a civilian airliner bound for Corrientes from Buenos Aires.

The Peronist guerrillas radioed for assistance and fled to waiting cars on a highway nearby.

An Argentine Army 1976 report entitled Informe Especial: Actividades OPM " Montoneros " año 1976, gave the following surviving Montoneros totals for September 1976: 9, 191 members with 991 guerrillas ( 391 officers and 600 other ranks ), 2, 700 armed militants and 5, 500 sympathizers and active collaborators.

# Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled ' Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ', and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law ; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America ;

Guerrillas, for example, usually do not wear a uniform or carry arms openly, but captured guerrillas are often granted POW status.

Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof then went to Jordan, where they trained in the West Bank and Gaza with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) guerrillas and looked to the Palestinian cause for inspiration and guidance.

In November 2004, the FARC-EP had rejected a proposal to hand over 59 of its captives in exchange for 50 guerrillas imprisoned by the government.

They requested security guarantees both for the displacement of their negotiators and that of the guerrillas that would be freed, which are specifically stated to number as many as 500 or more, and ask the Catholic Church to coordinate the participation of the United Nations and other countries in the process.

Colombia's Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized announced in August 2008 that 339 members of Colombia's rebel groups surrendered and handed in their weapons in July, including 282 guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

On 16 June 1963, Somali guerrillas started an insurgency at Hodayo, in eastern Ethiopia, a watering place north of Werder, after Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie rejected their demand for self-government in the Ogaden.