Colombian Guerrilla Warfare

Suspected FARC guerrillas detonated               a collar bomb they attached to dairy               farmer Elvia Cortes, age 55, on May               16, 2000, after she refused to pay a               $7,500 extorsion.	Diego Turbay Cote, head of the congressional      peace commission, was travelling to a political       meeting when he and five others, including his      mother, were forced to lie down and shot in the      back of the head by the FARC, on Dec. 29, 2000.

 

The FARC destroyed the town of Granada.	Mother and child flee FARC destruction in Granada.

 
 

Electrical towers destroyed by the FARC.	Ambulance crash, one killed, when FARC dinamited the bridge.

 
 

FARC attacked the town of Espino with 68 explosive cylinders.	Soldiers count the dead after a FARC attack on the AUC camp at Campamento, Antioquia, May 2002.

 
 

Plane shot down in Marquetalia.	General Mora shows President Pastrana an explosive cylinder used by the FARC.