List of guerrilla movements - Definition and Overview

This is a list of important guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation. Many groups have been left off (see external link (http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm) for list of more groups), and some may be better classified as terrorists rather than guerrillas.

North America

• Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN El Salvador
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity or URNG
• Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
• Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Zapatistas or EZLN -Chiapas, Mexico

South America

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC - Colombia
• ELN - Colombia
• Shining Path - Peru
• Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or MRTA - Peru
• Surinamese Liberation Army - Suriname
• Contras - Nicaragua (1980s)
• Sandinistas - Nicaragua (late 1970s: guerrilla movement, 1980s: in government)
• 19th of April Movement or M-19 - Colombia (late 1970s-late 1980s)

Europe

• National Liberation Army - Albania
• Basque Fatherland and Liberty or ETA - Spain
• EOKA - Cyprus
• Kosovo Liberation Army - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
• Kosovo Republic Armed Forces or FARK - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
• National Liberation Army - Yugoslavia
• Provisional IRA - island of Ireland
• Irish National Liberation Army - island of Ireland
• Ulster Defence Association - Northern Ireland
• Red Hand Defenders - Northern Ireland
• Continuity IRA - island of Ireland
• Real IRA - island of Ireland
• Chechen separatist guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov - Chechnya

Historic

• Metsavaennad "forest brethren" - Estonia (World War II)
• World War II Resistance movements in various countries, some sponsored by the United Kingdom government, other by Soviet Union;
• 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
• Chetniks - Yugoslavia
• Baader-Meinhof Gang - West Germany
• Lithuanian Resist (Forest Brothers) - Lithuania antisoviet partisan group after World War II

Africa

• African National Congress (ANC) - South Africa (political wing of MK)
• Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
• Mau Mau - Kenya
• UNITA - Angola
• Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
• Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Sakiet el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara or Morocco
• Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
• 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

Asia

• Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
• Taliban -- Afghanistan
• Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan (global Islamic militant network)
• Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
• Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
• Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
• Pathet Lao - Laos
• Moro Islamic Liberation Front - Philippines
• Hukbalahaps - Philippines
• New People's Army (NPA) - Philippines
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka

Historic

• Communist Party of China - China
• National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
• Wingate's Raiders - Burma

Middle East

• Irgun - Israel
• Haganah- Israel
• Lehi (group)
• Black September
• PLO
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
• Popular Resistance Committees
• Hamas
• Islamic Jihad
• Hezbollah
• Iraqi resistance
• Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf

See also:

• List of guerrillas
• List of terrorist groups
• Terrorism

External links

• Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm) (about 371 in all)