Word: amaru
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...January 1997, in the midst of the hostage ordeal at the Japanese embassy in Lima that dragged on for four months, "Fuji," as Peruvians called him, took TIME on a ride around the capital in his Toyota 4x4. His aim was to demonstrate that he, not the Tupac Amaru guerrillas who were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked in the thank-yous for the new streets and microbuses. One woman called out, "Fuji, the new water...
...military death squad that massacred civilians during his rule. As a result, Fujimori was convicted on Tuesday of being the "indirect perpetrator" of at least 25 murders and two kidnappings in the early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. The verdict makes Fujimori, 70, the first democratically elected head of state to be tried and convicted on human rights abuse charges in his own country. He was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, with fines ranging from...
...flowers added by Poutasi's daughter Tusi Luafutu when she emigrated to Australia in 1991. It's quite clear who rules the roost. Played out in these textiles are imaginative alternate universes, where the deposed Pomare kings and queens of Tahiti live on in the triumphant tifaifai of Aline Amaru. With her kapa kuiki laden with royal insignia, Hawaiian Gussie Bento too unstitches the spread of colonization. To protest the overthrow of their monarchy in the late 19th century, Hawaiian women quilted native flags, which they hung over their beds. These days, quilters like Bento might colonize contemporary art spaces...
...prevent her only son's death, Shakur, 59, has sought immortality for him. Armed with a seemingly limitless catalog of unreleased material, she has supervised the production of seven posthumous albums, the documentary Tupac: Resurrection and the new book Tupac Shakur Legacy. Plus she has opened the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, to encourage youngsters to pursue their artistic dreams. Mostly through her work, Tupac has become rap's first cult figure. For Wallace the issue is justice. She has spent the past four years embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles...
Want to know the latest on the hostages held by Peru's Tupac Amaru rebels? Check out the rebels' home page on the World Wide Web. Mexico's Zapatistas, Peru's Shining Path and Afghanistan's Taliban also boast Internet sites maintained by supporters. For today's guerrilla, the modem offers the best means to disseminate communiques, show off a pictorial gallery of brothers-in-arms--and even replenish the war chest by selling T shirts, videos and books...