independence fighters
Freedom movement soldiers
Independence fighters are people who engage in armed resistance against a ruling power to achieve political sovereignty for their nation or territory.
The term carries positive connotations of legitimacy and heroism, framing the struggle as righteous: The independence fighters drove out the colonial forces.
Whether combatants are called independence fighters, rebels, or terrorists often depends on the speaker's sympathies.
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- guerrilla tacticsAsymmetric combat by mobile fighters
- hunger strikeProtest through refusing food
- political prisonerJailed for ideology
- armed resistanceOrganized violent opposition
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independence fightersloyalists
Faithful to established authority
collaborators · unionists · royalists · imperialists · quislings
independence fightersoccupiers
Those currently dwelling somewhere
colonial forces · occupation troops · oppressors · colonial administrators · security forces
independence fightersconquerors
Those who defeat and dominate
subjugators · tyrants · puppet governments · colonial masters
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