List of guerrilla movements
This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
Latin America
- Jungle Commando – Suriname
- Contras – Nicaragua
- Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras
- Bolivarian Forces of Liberation – Venezuela
- Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay
Argentina
- Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucinario Tacuara – MNRT) – Argentina
- Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) – Argentina
Bolivia
- Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)
- Ñancahuazú Guerrilla (ELN)
- Néstor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ)
- Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK)
Chile
- Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) (1982–1994)
- Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
- Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1965–1987)
Colombia
- Guevarista Revolutionary Army (1992–2008)
- Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame (1984–1991)
- Ernesto Rojas Commandos (1991–1992)
- Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific
El Salvador
- Communist Party of El Salvador (PCS) (1930–1992)
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- People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) (1972–1992)
Mexico
- People's Guerrilla Group (GPG) (1963–1965)
Paraguay
- Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) (2008–present)
- United National Liberation Front (FULNA) (1960–1970)
Peru
- National Liberation Army (ELN) (1962–1965)
North America
- Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
- Black Liberation Army – United States
- Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
- Earth Liberation Front – United States
- MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) – United States – "Border War"
- Port7Alliance – United States
- The Order (Silent Brotherhood) – white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.
Historic
- Weather Underground – United States
- Black Panther Party – United States
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill – United States
- Direct Action – Canada
Europe
- National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
- Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece[1]
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
- Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
- Catalan Red Liberation Army – Spain
- Elisabeth Van Dyck Commando – France
Ireland
- Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) (1986–present)
- Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) (1969–1998)
- Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) (1998–present)
- Official Irish Republican Army
- Irish People's Liberation Organisation
- Oglaigh na hEireann (CIRA splinter group) (2009–present)
Spain
- Free Land (TL) (1978–1991)
- Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People (EGPGC) (1986–1991)
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- Revolutionary Armed Struggle (LAR) (1978–1984)
Historic
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- Cursed soldiers (Polish)
- Leśni (Polish)
- Silent Unseen (Polish)
- Battalion Zośka (Polish)
- National Armed Forces (Polish)
- Anti-Soviet partisans (Polish)
- Lisowczycy (Polish)
- Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46) (Polish)
- Henryk Dobrzański (Polish – the first guerrilla commander of the Second World War in Europe)
- 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;
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- 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
- Bielski partisans (Jewish from Poland)
- Parczew partisans (Jewish from Poland)
- Red Army Faction (RAF) – Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B (EOKA-B) during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
- Turkish Resistance Organisation (TMT) during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
Africa
- Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (MK) – Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.[4][5]
- Mau Mau – Kenya
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- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) – Liberia
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- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) – Nigeria
- Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) – Lesotho
- Uganda People's Democratic Army – Uganda
- National Resistance Army – Uganda
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- Janjaweed
- Niger Movement for Justice
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- Rally for Congolese Democracy – RCD, anti-government forces backed by Rwanda during the Second Congo War
- Movement for the Liberation of Congo – anti-government forces backed by Uganda during the Second Congo War
Asia
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- Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
- Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
- Mujahedin – (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
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- United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
- Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
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Historic
- Righteous army - Korea
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- Shivaji – India
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Middle East
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- Euphrates Volcano
- Jabhat al-Akrad
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- Irgun
- Lehi
- Black September
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Front for the Liberation of the Golan – Syria
Iran
- Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas (IFPG) (1979–present)
- Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) (UIC (S)) (1976–2001)
Palestine
Turkey
- People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C) (1970–1972)
Oceania
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See also
- List of guerrillas
- Guerrilla warfare
- List of active rebel groups
- List of active communist armed groups
- List of designated terrorist organizations
References
- During 2007
External links
- Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)
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