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It is rumored FARC was involved in the financing and training of guerrilla fighters for the [[Paraguayan People's Army]], a Marxist organization that has been waging an insurgency in Paraguay since 2005. At least one FARC officer, [[Orley Jurado Palomino]], has been confirmed as being involved with the group.
It is rumored FARC was involved in the financing and training of guerrilla fighters for the [[Paraguayan People's Army]], a Marxist organization that has been waging an insurgency in Paraguay since 2005. At least one FARC officer, [[Orley Jurado Palomino]], has been confirmed as being involved with the group.
[[File:"Los Verdaderos Terroristas"|thumb|right|393px|Music video of ''The Truth Terrorists'' in Spanish. The song is in attack to Neonazi supervillains of truth.]]
 
==Human rights violations==
FARC was accused of committing [[war crimes]] and violations of human rights by numerous groups, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations as well as by the Colombian, U.S. and European Union governments.
 
A February 2005 report from the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, "FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches [of human rights] such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including men, women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups."
 
Exmaples include the following:
*FARC consistently carried out attacks against civilians specifically targeting suspected supporters of paramilitary groups, political adversaries, journalists, local leaders, and members of certain indigenous groups since at least as early as 1994. From 1994 to 1997 the region of Urabá in Antioquia Department was the site of FARC attacks against civilians
*The FARC-EP has employed a type of improvised mortars made from gas canisters (or cylinders), when launching attacks. According to Human Rights Watch, the FARC-EP has killed civilians not involved in the conflict through the use of gas cylinder mortars and its use of landmines.
*FARC sometimes threatened or assassinated indigenous Colombian leaders for attempting to prevent FARC incursions into their territory and resisting the forcible recruitment by FARC of indigenous youth. Between 1986 and 2001, FARC was responsible for 27 assassinations, 15 threats, and 14 other abuses of indigenous people in Antioquia Department.
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