This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Crime and Criminal Biography articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Crime and Criminal BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Crime and Criminal BiographyCrime-related articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.LawWikipedia:WikiProject LawTemplate:WikiProject Lawlaw articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Terrorism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles on terrorism, individual terrorists, incidents and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TerrorismWikipedia:WikiProject TerrorismTemplate:WikiProject TerrorismTerrorism articles
I think a clear definition may be useful. E.g., I would call the United States Democratic and Republican Parties "rebel groups", as breakers of U.S. and international law. However, this would mean that any group could qualify as a "rebel group". Perhaps something like "groups challenging the current group in power"?Greedyhalibut (talk) 00:26, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
May be non-governmental political groups violently challenging the UN-recognized central government in a country. I'll add it. Thanks. --Againme (talk) 11:33, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Then what about counter-revolutionary or vigilante groups that challenge the law by taking it into their own hands with acts of terrorism, but don't actually aim to overthrow an established UN recognized government? (i.e. Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, GAL in Spain, Rondas Campesinas in Peru, AUC and Black Eagles in Colombia, etc)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.55.244 (talk) 23:06, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]