The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

FRELIMO initially established some " liberated " zones ( countryside zones with native rural populations controlled by FRELIMO guerrillas ) in Northern Mozambique, and the strength of the movement gradually grew over the ensuing decade.

This concept was initially highly controversial within the Rhodesian government ; the idea of " turning " captured guerrillas instead of punishing them was unpalatable to some.

News stories circulated by El Tiempo, RCN TV, and Caracol TV initially reported that, according to General Carlos Suárez of the 5th division of the Colombian Army, Simón Trinidad and Sonia were cooperating with US authorities to help capture other FARC guerrillas, including Farouk Shaikh Reyes.

Later, in 1964, a section of these guerrillas would develop into the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC-EP ), which initially was considered as the official armed wing of the Communist party.

Tactically, she was initially invaluable to Guevara's guerrillas because she used radio equipment hidden in a compartment behind the wall in her apartment to not only send coded messages to Fidel Castro in Havana ; but to Guevara's guerrillas in the field by posing as a radiohost giving encoded relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.

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.

The guerrillas initially targeted the army and police, but some groups soon started attacking civilians.

It was initially based at Kai Tak, Hong Kong, but was quickly deployed to Kuala Lumpur in Malaya, flying their Tempests in ground attack missions against Communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency.

The guerrillas initially focused on attacking Israel, but by late 1968, the main fedayeen activities in Jordan appeared to shift to attempts to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy.

The exact chronology of the repression is still debated, however, as trade unionists were targeted for assassination by guerrillas as early as 1969, and individual cases of state-sponsored terrorism against Peronism and the left can be traced back at least to the Bombing of Plaza de Mayo in 1955.

In early 1983, to eliminate rural support for Museveni's guerrillas the area of Luwero District, north of Kampala, was targeted for a massive population removal affecting almost 750, 000 people.

In the 1972 Doctor Who adventure Day of the Daleks, Sir Reginald Styles is targeted by guerrillas from the 22nd century, who believe he's behind the deaths of VIP delegates.

Indigenous people were assumed to be universally supporters of the guerrillas who were fighting against the government, and were targeted for brutal reprisals.

After his assassination began the period known as " La Violencia " in which some members of the Liberal Party formed armed guerrillas, that were then targeted by conservative paramilitary forces.

The families of the dead soldiers and several ministers claim that the information was sold to the guerrillas and that a major betrayal took place.

This involved sweeping the country bare of everything that could give sustenance to the Boer guerrillas, including women and children, and included the destruction of crops, burning down homesteads and farms, poisoning wells, and salting fields, and saw non-combatants ( Boer families and sympathisers ) interned in concentration camps where mortality among the women and children reached an extreme whereby 50 % of the population of Boer children under 16 died.

Suspected Hezbollah guerrillas, their families and Lebanese civilian internees were previously detained in the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) prison at Khiam in the then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon.

The Royal Irish Constabulary's morale and effective strength were both declining: Irish Republican Army guerrillas were ambushing police patrols, burning police barracks, and organizing boycotts of police and their families.

Eventually the kidnapping of drug cartel family members by guerrillas led to the creation of the 1981 Muerte a Secuestradores ( MAS ) death squad (" Death to Kidnappers ").

The Virgilio Barco ( 1986 – 1990 ) administration, in addition to continuing to handle the difficulties of the complex negotiations with the guerrillas, also inherited a particularly chaotic confrontation against the drug lords, who were engaged in a campaign of terrorism and murder in response to government moves in favor of their extradition overseas.

A 1992 Central Intelligence Agency report " acknowledged that the FARC had become increasingly involved in drugs through their ' taxing ' of the trade in areas under their geographical control and that in some cases the insurgents protected trafficking infrastructure to further fund their insurgency ," but also described the relationship between the FARC and the drug traffickers as one " characterized by both cooperation and friction " and concluded that " we do not believe that the drug industry Colombia would be substantially disrupted in the short term by attacks against guerrillas.

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.

For example, Ecuador has allegedly absorbed up to 300, 000 refugees from Colombia who are running from guerrillas, paramilitaries and drug lords, says Linda Helfrich.

The series also took a look at political issues such as the Northern Ireland conflict, the drug war in South America ( e. g. " Prodigal Son "), several episodes drawn on the Miami River Cops scandal ( a real police corruption ring that involved narcotic thefts, drug dealing and murders ), as well as several episodes of Cuban exile guerrillas and drug trafficking, and U. S. support of anti-communist generals and dictators in Southeast Asia and South America.

Between 1990 and 1991 the base received from the U. S. government six C-130B aircraft to support operations to combat drug trafficking and guerrillas.

This party was subject to political violence from drug lords, paramilitaries and military agents, leading to the forced disappearances, kidnappings and assassinations of many of its members, while others later became active guerrillas or refugees overseas.

The Cauca region is also important for the cultivation of coca, which makes it even more of a hot spot as guerrillas, paramilitaries and state forces battle for control over drug routes to the pacific coast.

In the 1990s the department saw a number of displacement crises as tens of thousands of civilians, the majority of them of afro-Colombian and indigenous descent, were forced to flee the fighting between guerrillas, the army, paramilitaries and drug traffickers.

The battles between guerrillas, the army, " neo-paramilitaries " and drug traffickers has killed thousands and, according to some estimates, displaced some 150, 000 civilians between 2007 and 2011 in Valle del Cauca alone.

In October 1981 a 39-man unit of Thahan Phran and Burmese guerrillas attempted to assassinate the drug warlord Khun Sa at the instigation of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

The communist guerrillas eventually land in Florida and exchange the drugs for weaponry from a drug dealer.

Several of theses objectives stem from a belief in that the Colombian government should protect Colombian society from the effects of terrorism and the illegal drug trade, and in turn society as a whole should have a more active and comprehensive role in the government's struggle against illegal armed groups such as the FARC and ELN guerrillas or the paramilitary AUC, in order to ensure the defense and continued existence of the opportunity for both leftwing and rightwing political parties to engage in free and open debate, along with all the other aspects of democratic life.

At the end of the century the region faced the crisis of the growing of drug traffic mafias, paramilitary groups and guerrillas, especially in Antioquia with the Medellín Cartel and the north of Valle del Cauca.

As previously noted by the Colombian government, " the armed confrontation in the region between the guerrillas and the illegal self-defence forces is very violent due to the economic and strategic interests in play, including, among others: drug trafficking, the inter-oceanic connection, the development of megaprojects like the Panamerican Highway, and the proximity of ports and hydroelectric stations.

A 1992 Central Intelligence Agency report " acknowledged that the FARC had become increasingly involved in drugs through their ' taxing ' of the trade in areas under their geographical control and that in some cases the insurgents protected trafficking infrastructure to further fund their insurgency ," but also described the relationship between the FARC and the drug traffickers as one " characterized by both cooperation and friction " and concluded that " we do not believe that the drug industry Colombia would be substantially disrupted in the short term by attacks against guerrillas.

For over a century, there has been encroachment onto Asháninka land from rubber tappers, loggers, Maoist guerrillas, drug traffickers, colonisers, and oil companies.

Following administrations had to contend with the guerrillas, paramilitaries, narcotics traffickers and the violence and corruption that they all perpetuated, both through force and negotiation.

The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners.

At the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982, members of the Medellín Cartel, the Colombian military, the U. S .- based corporation Texas Petroleum, the Colombian legislature, small industrialists, and wealthy cattle ranchers came together in a series of meetings in Puerto Boyacá, and formed a paramilitary organization known as Muerte a Secuestradores (" Death to Kidnappers ", MAS ) to defend their economic interests, to fight against the guerrillas, and to provide protection for local elites from kidnappings and extortion.

The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners.