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FARC officially disbanded in June 2017 after agreeing to peace negotiations with the Colombian government the previous year. However, thousands of FARC dissidents still take on FARC's original doctrine and continue with drug trafficking and occasional guerrilla attacks.
FARC officially disbanded in June 2017 after agreeing to peace negotiations with the Colombian government the previous year. However, thousands of FARC dissidents still take on FARC's original doctrine and continue with drug trafficking and occasional guerrilla attacks.
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.
During the latter years of the [[Cold War]], FARC also formed an alliance with [[Shining Path]], the group responsible for the internal conflict in Peru from 1980 to 2000.
==Human rights violations==
==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.
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.
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*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.
*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.
*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.
==Association with other organizations==
*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.
*During the latter years of the [[Cold War]], FARC also formed an alliance with [[Shining Path]], the group responsible for the internal conflict in Peru from 1980 to 2000.
*FARC has allegedly received support from the Venezuelan government, under both [[Hugo Chávez]] and [[Nicolás Maduro]].
*They were also allies with the [[Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]].
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