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- From: v131mdqm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Andrew I Baudo)
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- Subject: Re: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:11:00 GMT
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- In article <9301090728.AA19591@tba.msi.corne>, harelb@math.cornell.edu writes...
- >
- >From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- >Subject: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path and Army.
- >
- >
- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- > "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 [..]
- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- >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
- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- >/* Written 5:44 pm Sep 18, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
- >From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
- >
- >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)
- >
- >##################################################################
- >
- >========================================
- >The following is a R. Havana commentary:
- >========================================
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Violence is still very much alive in Peru, and violence breeds
- >violence. (9/17)
-