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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path and Army.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.072817.9621@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:28:17 GMT
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- "Shining Path has, in fact, unleashed an indiscriminate terror
- campaign...Little is said, however, of the state terror that gave
- rise to an aberration like Shining Path, of the Peruvian armed
- forces that have one of the worst human rights records in Latin
- America, of the massacres against the civilian population [..]
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- Topic 247 Shining Path news & commentary
- hrcoord Information on Peru & US Policy 5:51 pm Sep 21, 1992
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: Shining Path news & commentary
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- /* Written 5:44 pm Sep 18, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
- From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
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- PERU
- The Peruvian police has confirmed the arrest of Shining Path
- national coordinator, Herman Cipian Tavarra(?), over the weekend.
- Since then, police sources added, some 100 Shining Path members
- have surrendered to authorities, probably seeking government
- amnesty. (R. Havana 9/17)
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- The following is a R. Havana commentary:
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- The capture in Peru of the Shining Path top leadership is being
- portrayed as an important blow to the violence that has rocked this
- Andean nation for many years.
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- Shining Path has, in fact, unleashed an indiscriminate terror
- campaign, even targeting progressive community organizers who the
- guerrillas feared would reduce their influence among the masses.
-
- Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is patting himself on the back
- and announcing to the nation that he has complied with one of his
- declared objectives, to seriously fight terrorism. Little is said,
- however, of the state terror that gave rise to an aberration like
- Shining Path, of the Peruvian armed forces that have one of the
- worst human rights records in Latin America, of the massacres
- against the civilian population, the torture and disappearances
- sponsored by the military.
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- Nor is anyone referring to violence in its broadest definition, the
- violence of hunger, which murders 70,000 Peruvian children each
- year. The violence of a practically nonexistent health and
- sanitation structure that has produced 500,000 cases of
- tuberculosis and more than 300,000 cases of cholera. The violence
- of extreme poverty, imposed on the vast majority by a tiny elite
- which is buttressed by the trans-national nobility.
-
- Shining Path has been operating since 1980 and must surely have an
- entrenched clandestine structure. But even if this particular
- guerrilla organization were to disintegrate, the vacuum would be
- occupied by other rebels, who believe that armed struggle is the
- only recourse.
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- Violence is still very much alive in Peru, and violence breeds
- violence. (9/17)
-