Reply #16: you're right, the treatment of the prisoners does not make them a terrorist group....

[tchunter]

but how the prisoners arrived there, via kidnapping (of non-combatants) makes them victims and not POW's. Kidnappings are pretty standard terrorist group MO, great intimidation/propaganda value. Also FARC uses propane cylinder mortars (probably learned from the IRA) which are homemade, unreliable and impossible to aim and frequently go off course, thusly killing civilians. Even if its "just collateral damage", its still dead civilians.

FARC does control some parts of Colombia, mostly the dense jungles and mountains.