List of guerrilla movements

This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.

Contents 1 Latin America 1.1 Argentina 1.2 Bolivia 1.3 Chile 1.4 Colombia 1.5 Peru 2 North America 3 Europe 4 Africa 5 Asia 6 Middle East 7 External links

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
• Araguaia guerrilla (PC do B) Brazil

• Suriname National Liberation Army - Suriname
• Contras - Nicaragua
• 26th of July Movement - Cuba
• Morazanist Patriotic Front - Honduras
• Bolivarian Forces of Liberation - Venezuela
• Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros - Uruguay

Argentina

• People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) - Argentina
• Montoneros - Argentina
• Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucinario Tacuara - MNRT) - Argentina

Bolivia

• Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)
• National Liberation Army (ELN)
• Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ)
• Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK)
• Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Commando

Chile

• Arnoldo Camu Command - Chile
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
• Destacamiento Toqui Lautaro (1980–1981)

Colombia

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (1964–present)
• National Liberation Army (1964–present)
• 19th of April Movement (M-19) (1970–1990)
• Revolutionary Guevarist Army (1992–2008)

Peru

• Shining Path (1980–present)
• Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA (1980s-1997)
• National Liberation Army (Peru) (1962–1965)

North America

• Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
• Black Liberation Army - United States* Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance - Guadeloupe
• FALN (Frente Americano para la Liberación Nacional) also known as The Guerrilla Alliance - United States and The Americas
• 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

• Black Panther Party - United States
• Quebec Liberation Front - Canada
• Direct Action - Canada

Europe

• National Liberation Army - Republic of Macedonia
• Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (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
• Catalan Red Liberation Army - Spain
• Commando Elizabeth Van Dyck - France
• Antifascist Resistance Groups October First - Spain
• Provisional IRA (IRA) - Northern Ireland
• Brigate Rosse (BR, after split BR-PCC) - Italy
• 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 Faction (RAF) - Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
• Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War - Greece

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

Asia

• Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
• Taliban -- Afghanistan
• Jundallah
• Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan
• Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
• Kurdistan Workers Party -- Turkey
• Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
• People's Mujahedin of Iran
• 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 -- India/Bangladesh
• Balochistan Liberation Army - Pakistan
• JKLF- Indian occupied Kashmir
• Hizbul Mujahideen- Indian occupied Kashmir
• Jaish-e-Mohammed- Indian occupied Kashmir

Historic

• Chushi Gangdruk - Tibet, China
• Communist Party of China - China
• Katipunan (KKK) - Philippines
• Righteous army-Korea
• National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
• Viet Minh - 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.
• Shivaji - india

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 - Iraq
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
• Popular Resistance Committees
• Hamas
• Islamic Jihad
• Hezbollah - Lebanon
• Iraqi insurgency - Iraq
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
• Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas- Iran
• Front for the Liberation of the Golan - Syria

See also:

• List of guerrilla fighters
• List of terrorist groups
• Terrorism

External links

• Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)