COLOMBIA GOVT VS GUERILLAS FARC AND ELN
YEARS: 1984-2000 | DEATHS: 22000
THE CONFLICT DATABASE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA
Information about this conflict can be found in the conflict database made and maintained by the The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at University of Uppsala in Sweden.
Quote from article: "Although there were several groups which fought the government at the beginning of the 1990s, by the end of the decade only two groups remained active: FARC and ELN. Although FARC (Popular Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is the only peasant-based guerrilla movement, other opposition organisations with different origins and backgrounds have also joined the battle over government. The differences between them might explain the weakness of their few attempts to create an umbrella organisation. ELN (National Liberation Army) was created by a group of students that had returned from Cuba. After taking the town of Simacota, the organisation stated its incompatibility, which at the time was to bring down the government."
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Uppsala University Conflict Database