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The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.
Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.
There were no `` casualties '', but the `` guerrillas '' admitted to being `` a little tired '' when the leaders called a halt at 9 A.M. to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane.
" Soldiers were told they were destroying crops because they were going to be used to feed guerrillas.
Under the latest such decree, president Turbay had implemented security policies that, though of some military value against the M-19 in particular, were considered highly questionable both inside and outside Colombian circles due to numerous accusations of military human rights abuses against suspects and captured guerrillas.
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.
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 ).
For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.
Although leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads also engaged in summary executions, forced disappearances, and torture of noncombatants, the vast majority of human rights violations were carried out by the Guatemalan military and the PACs they controlled.
Following independence local soldiers that fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas were slaughtered by the thousands.
Afghan guerrillas that were chosen to receive medical treatment in the United States, Norton Air Force Base, California, 1986.
French supply lines stretching across Spain were mauled repeatedly by Spanish guerrillas.
Starting in 1984, the government launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive a wedge between the villagers and the guerrillas in the remote areas of two provinces of Kurdistan in which Kurdish guerrillas were active.
It started as communist party that was working together and searching for direction from the Vietnamese guerrillas who were fighting their own civil war.
After a joint NATO-Serb crackdown on Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo, European Union ( EU ) officials were able to negotiate a cease-fire in June.
Taya made his first visit to Morocco in October 1985 ( prior to visits to Algeria and Tunisia ) in the wake of Moroccan claims that Polisario guerrillas were again traversing Mauritanian territory.
On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.
That same day, three policemen were killed in their patrol car in another ambush by the urban guerrillas in Buenos Aires and an army conscript was killed by a booby-trapped bomb in Tucumán province.
On 25 July 1975 four policemen were wounded in attacks in which the Peronist guerrillas employed bazookas and firebombs.
The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

guerrillas and running
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 guerrillas on board finally ordered the plane to be landed in Damascus, Syria, allegedly because the plane was running low on fuel.
All the guerrillas were killed afterwards in a running battle with police

guerrillas and across
During the 1980s a captured Sandinista commando revealed that Montoneros " Special Forces " were training Sandinista frogmen and conducting gun runs across the Gulf of Fonseca to the Sandinista allies in El Salvador, FMLN guerrillas.
However, in January 1964, after Ethiopia sent reinforcements to the Ogaden, Somali forces launched ground and air attacks across the border and started providing assistance to the guerrillas.
After setting up and ambush and attacking their lightly armoured Humvee vehicles with small arms fire and RPG ’ s the patrol stopped and Macedonian forces and guerrillas exchanged fire in a short skirmish, after soldiers started retreating half of the patrol managed to escape one soldier was shot and 7 others captured and allegedly executed with knives and then their corpses were allegedly burned. News of the massacre sparked local uprisings against Muslim Albanians in several towns and cities across Macedonia, and such revolts included burning and vandalising shops and Mosques.
ALN guerrillas using mortar across the Algerian-Tunisian border protected by the electrified Morice Line.
As the Chimurenga or Bush War gathered force after 1972, Special Branch developed the Selous Scouts, an undercover tracker battalion of 1, 500 troops, 80 percent black, many having been recruited from captured guerrillas facing trial and possible execution, and also " pseudo guerrillas " such as the Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ) to disrupt Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army ( ZANLA ) camps across the border in Mozambique.
It portrays in detail how a dedicated group of Spanish guerrillas dragged a gigantic cannon across half the country in an effort to defeat Napoleon's advancing army.
Nationalism and social reform struck a chord among the peasant guerrillas, and Donghak spread all across Korea.
* U. S. and Iraqi forces capture more than 100 suspected guerrillas in raids across Iraq.
Nevertheless, Choe's advocacy of democracy, human rights and nationalism struck a chord among the peasant guerrillas and Donghak spread across Korea rapidly.
Valle del Cauca is considered part of the guerrillas ' traditional " heartland ", which stretches across southern Colombia to Vichada in the east.
Air America helicopters airlift Meo and Thai guerrillas led by Vang Pao behind enemy positions while the Royal Lao Army pushes across the Plain of Jars.
Poorly prepared and having done little advanced work in the area, several guerrillas were killed by the Guardia Nacional, while others were able to escape across the Honduran border.
He revealed that the guerrillas had been watching an estimated 1, 000 Japanese soldiers camped out across the Cabu River just a few hundred yards from the prison.

guerrillas and parade
There they were greeted by Army Col. Macario L. Peralta's Filipino guerrillas and continued with the Philippine Commonwealth troops drawn up in parade formation.
Even according to Reid-Daly, most of those killed were unarmed guerrillas standing in formation for a parade.

guerrillas and ground
In 1945, the combined United States and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops together with the recognized guerrillas took in Cagayan by the attack from the Japanese troops during the liberated in Cagayan province was under the Filipino soldiers of the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, 1st Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the United States Armed Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon or USAFIP-NL from the Battle of Cagayan Valley during the Second World War.
For nearly 18 hours, the Rangers fought Somali guerrillas in what became the fiercest ground combat for U. S. military personnel since the Vietnam War.
Many new paramilitary groups have emerged after the demobilisazion of AUC, while guerrillas like FARC and ELN have regained ground in many parts of the department.
Of the 56 people on board, 38 die in the crash and ZIPRA guerrillas shoot 10 more to death on the ground, leaving only eight survivors.
In addition to jungle discipline, field craft, and survival skills, special tactics such as combat tracking ( first using native trackers ), close-quarter fighting ( tactics were developed by troopers protected only with fencing masks stalking and shooting each other in the jungle training ground with air rifles ), small team operations ( which led to the typical four-man special operations teams ) and tree jumping ( parachuting into the jungle and through the rain forest canopy ) were developed from Borneo's Iban native to actively take the war to the Communist guerrillas instead of reacting to incidents initiated by them.
First, they tortured the elderly, because they said the latter were guerrillas ; then they threw two grenades and fired weapons … After executing the women, the men and the elderly, they took the children one by one, smashed them against the ground, and threw them into the flames.
As American pilots bailed out when their planes were hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, they often found Filipino guerrillas waiting for them even before they hit the ground.
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.
Marking's guerrillas and the Hunters ROTC guerrillas around in Jalajala was fought the invading commands from the plains and attacking Japanese troops and Makapili rebels for the couple of few months and four years during the counter-insurgencies under the Japanese Occupation, while the Rizaleño guerrillas was controlled to retreating by the Japanese soldiers and before the liberators of local Filipino ground forces under the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units recaptured in Jalajala and aiding the local Rizaleño resistance and defeated Japanese troops and Makapili rebels in 1945 and the following the Invasion of Jalajala.
When the raid at Capas on 1945, combined US and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops supporting local recognized guerrillas freed by few thousands of Filipino and American POW's on Bataan Death March and attacking Japanese forces.
In 1945, combined U. S. and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops including the local various recognized guerrillas and Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas liberated the towns in Rizal and defeats Japanese Imperial forces and ended the Second World War.

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