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The PCdoB, which had chosen not to get involved in urban armed actions, was not affected by the repression and had better conditions to prepare and launch guerrilla warfare in the countryside. The Araguaia River region, in the south of Pará, was chosen by the party to start the armed struggle in the countryside; the PCdoB had militants living ...
The PCdoB officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist theory. [4] It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and student movements. PCdoB shares the disputed title of "oldest political party in Brazil" with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). The predecessor of both parties was the Brazilian Section of the Communist ...
First Army troops to arrive in Araguaia, 1972. The idea of setting up a focus of rural guerrilla that could function as a pole of attraction for all elements dissatisfied with the Brazilian military dictatorship in order to compensate for the smashing of urban opposition movements had been long nurtured among the Brazilian Left since 1964, but it was left to the PCdoB to be the only political ...
Russell W. Volckmann – United States Army infantry officer and a leader of the guerrilla resistance in the Philippines and considered a co-founder of the United States Army Special Forces; Hugh B. Miller – U.S. naval officer stranded on an island who systematically ambushed and attacked Japanese soldiers with just hand grenades and a bayonet.
The Rebel Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, FAR) was a Guatemalan guerrilla organization established in 1961 and lasting until the peace agreements in 1996. In the late 1960s, the Guatemalan government began a United States -backed counter-insurgency campaign that killed between 2,800 and 8000 FAR supporters in eastern Guatemala.
During her time with the Naxalites, she met soldiers of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), whom she described as "heavy hitters" who carry "serious rifles". [4] Roy described the most surprising she learned during her time with the Naxalites was that 45% of the PLGA were women, many of whom joined the communists after witnessing ...
Operation Momentum was a guerrilla training program during the Laotian Civil War run by the Central Intelligence Agency to raise a guerrilla force of Hmong hill-tribesmen in northeastern Laos to fight the North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) and their Pathet Lao allies.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو عمر البغدادي, romanized: ʾAbū ʿUmar al-Baghdādī; / ˈ ɑː b uː ˈ oʊ m ɑːr ɑː l b ɑː ɡ ˈ d ɑː d i / ⓘ AH-boo OH-mar ahl bahg-DAHD-ee; 1964 – 18 April 2010), born Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al-Zawi (Arabic: حَمِيدُ دَاوُدَ مُحَمَّدُ خَلِيلِ ٱلزَّاوِيِّ, romanized: Ḥamīd Dāwud ...