List of guerrilla movements
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This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
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[edit] Latin America
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) El Salvador
- Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
- Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) - Mexico
- Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas - Chiapas, Mexico
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
- National Liberation Army ELN - Colombia
- People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) - Argentina
- Montoneros - Argentina
- Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucinario Tacuara - MNRT) - Argentina
- Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA - Peru
- Suriname National Liberation Army - Suriname
- Contras - Nicaragua
- 19th of April Movement (M-19) - Colombia
- 26th of July Movement - Cuba
- Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)- Bolivia
- National Liberation Army (ELN) - Bolivia
- Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ) - Bolivia
- Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) - Bolivia
- Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - (FPMR) Chile
- Revolutionary Guevarist Army - Colombia
- Bolivarian Forces of Liberation - Venezuela
- Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros - Uruguay
[edit] North America
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
- Black Liberation Army - United States
- Nation of Islam's paramilitary security force (Fruit of Islam) - United States
- New World Liberation Front (NWLF) - United States
- MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) - United States - "Border War"
- Port7Alliance - United States
- Ku Klux Klan - United States
- Weather Underground - United States
- The Order - United States
Historic
[edit] Europe
- National Liberation Army - Republic of Macedonia
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euzkadi Tas Askantasuna (ETA) - Spain
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters - (EOKA) Cyprus
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
- Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
- UCPMB - Serbia
- Provisional IRA (PIRA) - Northern Ireland
- Brigate Rosse (BR, after split BR-PCC) - Italy
- Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Northern Ireland
- Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - Northern Ireland
- Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) - Northern Ireland
- Continuity IRA (CIRA) - Northern Ireland
- Real IRA (RIRA) - Northern Ireland
- Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) - Chechnya
Historic
- Forest Brothers - Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II-1952 approx.)
- World War II Resistance movements in various countries sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Western governments;
- 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
- Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (Chetniks) - Yugoslavia
- National Liberation Army (Partizans) - Yugoslavia
- Brigate Rosse (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) - Italy
- Action Directe (AD) - France
- Snapphane Movement - Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
- Soviet government-organized Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
- Polish underground army, Armia Krajowa, Bataliony Chłopskie and National Armed Forces during World War II, small units after the war later described as Cursed soldiers
- Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) - Greece
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - Ukraine
- Red Army Fraction (RAF) - Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
- Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War - Greece
[edit] Africa
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
- Mau Mau - Kenya
- National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA - Angola
- Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola MPLA - Angola
- National Union for the Total Independence of Angola UNITA- Angola
- Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara
- Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
- Mozambican Liberation Front or FRELIMO
- Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO - Mozambique
- South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) - Namibia
- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - Uganda
- Uganda People's Democratic Army - Uganda
- National Resistance Army - Uganda
- poqo - South Africa armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress
- Afrikaner Resistance Movement - South Africa
- Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
- Oromo Liberation Front
- Sudan People's Liberation Army
- Sudan Liberation Movement
- Justice and Equality Movement
- Janjaweed
- Niger Movement for Justice
[edit] Asia
- Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
- Taliban -- Afghanistan
- Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan (global Islamic militant network)
- Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
- Kurdistan Workers Party -- Turkey
- Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
- Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
- Pathet Lao - Laos
- Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) - Philippines
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) - Philippines
- Hukbalahaps - Philippines
- New People's Army (NPA) - Philippines
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka
- Lashkar-e-Toiba -- based in Pakistan
- United Liberation Front of Asom -- IndiaBangladesh
- Balochistan Liberation Army- Pakistan
- JKLF- Kashmir
- Hizbul Mujahideen- Kashmir
- Jaish-e-Mohammed- Kashmir
Historic
- Chushi Gangdruk - Tibet, China
- Communist Party of China - China
- Katipunan-Philippines
- Righteous army-Korea
- National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
- Wingate's Raiders - Burma
- Hermes - Borneo Island/Malaysia--The Dayak's indigenous guerrilla group which fights against discrimination by the Malaysian Government to their race. They also fight for Free Religions in Malaysia.
[edit] Middle East
- Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDK-I)
- Komalah - Iran
- Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK)
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon, Armenia and the USA
- Irgun
- Haganah
- Lehi (group)
- Black September
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Ansar al-Islam
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Hamas
- Islamic Jihad
- Hezbollah
- Iraqi insurgency
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
- Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas- Iran
See also:
[edit] External links
- Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)
