AUC-FARC/ELN Clashes

In the later stages of the Colombian Conflict, right wing paramilitary groups such as the United Self Defense of Colombia (AUC) were organized by drug lords to fight against the Marxist rebel groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). FARC and the ELN were infamous for criminal activities such as kidnappings (often targeted Drug Lords, which one of the reasons why AUC and similar groups were created) and drug trafficking (paramilitary groups, liker their rivals also used drug trafficking as a source of founding) for funding their insurgency. FARC/ELN groups also used terrorist style massacres to subdue the civilian population into supporting their insurgency (one incident occurred when FARC guerrillas glued a bomb to the neck of some woman that didn't pay her debt to the group, and sent her to some government target as a forced suicide bomber). The AUC in return, also used terror against suspected guerrilla supporters. The terror tactics got so intense that the AUC eventually was responsible for 80% of the killings occurred in the late part of the Colombian Conflict. AUC paramilitaries have been known to use chainsaws to disembowel FARC/ELN captives and civilians accused of supporting such groups. Most clashes between right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing insurgents are between the AUC and FARC because they are the most powerful groups in their perspective categories. In 2006, the AUC theoretically demobilized their troops, and disbanded. However, similar groups like the Black Eagles still continue to attack left wing supporters to this day (although on a much smaller scale).