BOGOTA - Colombian terrorist group ELN vowed Monday to continue its stance of violent war against Colombia's democratically elected government in order to achieve what it called "real peace" in the country.

Colombia's second largest terrorist group announced on its official website that it will be "tireless in fighting for the purposes of real peace for Colombia," and until "that reality comes, will continue in arms." The terrorist group also said it will "support popular struggles" in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America, a euphemism for Marxist and other left-wing terrorist movements.

The terror group further claimed on its website, "We are worthy and unyielding fighters for a homeland for all, without exclusions of any kind, and for genuine peace that overcomes injustice, and bring to the masses democracy, sovereignty and social equity."

The ELN claimed to be speaking to victims of Colombia's fight against terrorist groups and of recent flooding, as well as to "ethnic minorities, students, artists and intellectuals."

According to the rebels, their actions are a "testimony of rebellion, as a genuine right of a people, and a nation that has imposed exploitation and capitalist domination, and imperialistic yoke from North America."

Yet the terrorist group has oppressed civilians in its areas of operations for decades, extorting what it calls "war taxes" from small business owners and even the poor, along with kidnapping their relatives if they refuse to pay.

On the site, the ELN terrorist communique claimed that it was the "moral support" of the Colombian people that drove their work during 2011, and stated that it would continue to be active in the new year.

ELN has been conducting terrorist activities since 1964, and its current membership is estimated to be between 2000 and 3000 terrorist operatives. According to NGO reports, the group has kidnapped over 3,000 people between 2000 and 2007, and still holds 240 hostages. The group has been responsible for 153 hostage deaths in that same time period.