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 * FARC-EP:Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo by Guilian Del Rio



The revoluntionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army, is a Marxist-Lenninist revolutionary guerilla organization based in Colombia. They have fought in the Colombian Civil War for more than 40 years. They were considered a terrorist group by the Colombian goverment. The United States Department of State, Canada, and the European Union and other goverments including the Venezuelan goverment are less hostile towards the FARC-EP. The President of Colombia,Hugo Chavez, in January 2008 considered the FARC-EP to be "real armies" and called on the Colombian goverment and the international community to recognize the guerillas as a "belligerent force". . -**Strength**:Approximately 9,000 to 12,000 armed combatants and several thousand more supporters, mostly in rural areas
 * ALFONSO CANO the leader of the FARC **

-**Recruitment**: People sometimes join Voluntarily. Many Colombian citizens say that their children have been kidnapped from their homes and forced into the FARC. Many women are forced to join as well.


 * -Location**:Colombia, with some activities—extortion, kidnapping, logistics, and R&R—in Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador


 * Guerilla War Terms **:
 * Guerilla**:War
 * Comandante**:Commander
 * Kidnapping**:Secuestro
 * Exiled**:Exiliado
 * Revolution**:Revolución
 * Bombing**:Bombardeo

Bombings, murder, mortar attacks, kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, as well as guerrilla and conventional military action against Colombian political, military, and economic targets. In March 1999, the FARC executed three US Indian rights activists on Venezuelan territory after it kidnapped them in Colombia. Foreign citizens often are targets of FARC kidnapping for ransom. Although the Colombian government has given the FARC political status and has attempted to negotiate with this terrorist organization to stop the recruitment of minors, the FARC has refused. The Colombian government's Family Welfarembian Institute estimates that at least 30% of the FARC's fighters are younger than 18, compared to about 15% a decade ago. However, international and Colombia agencies that track the use of child fighters now think the FARC's numbers may be higher. During recent skirmishes between the Army and a FARC column, 32 of the 77 fighters captured by army troops were under 18 years old, and 19 of those were 15 and under. Of the 46 FARC fighters who were killed in the skirmishes, 20 were children. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that there were about 6,000 minors serving in the FARC and AUC terrorist groups last year.
 * Activities**


 * Children soliders in the FARC reporting for duty**.

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