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...however, the birthday party came to a crashing halt. In quick succession, a hole was blown in a retaining wall from an adjoining house, hand grenades were thrown at the embassy guardhouse and about 25 rebels belonging to a group known as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement stormed into the compound. As the insurgents engaged police in a ferocious gun battle, everyone--Peruvian ministers, blue-chip business tycoons, assembled diplomats and their wives--dropped to the ground. "Don't lift your head," the rebels barked, "or it'll be shot...
...hostage release presaged a weakening of the insurgents' will were dampened on Wednesday when the commander of the rebel operation announced that if the government did not open talks within one hour, he would start executing hostages. Fortunately, the deadline passed safely--a reprieve that seemed to underscore Tupac Amaru's reputation for favoring bargains over bloodshed...
...Tupac Amaru has always been something of a poor cousin to Peru's most infamous terrorist group, the Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which nearly succeeded in its violent bid to topple the Peruvian state in the early 1990s. Smaller than its notorious rival, Tupac Amaru drew inspiration not from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua...
...radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included Victor Polay, Tupac Amaru's top leader at the time...
...secret Peruvian military court sentenced Lori Berenson, 26, of New York City, to life imprisonment for treason. The prosecution said Berenson had aided the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which was planning an attack on the Peruvian Congress, by stockpiling weapons, renting housing for the rebels and gathering information by posing as a journalist. Berenson's lawyer has already filed an appeal...