Word: guerrillas
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...dragged Menchu's mother away, held her captive and raped her repeatedly. After torturing her, they left her under a tree to die of her wounds. Menchu tried to live in hiding but soon had to flee the country; two of her sisters went to the mountains to join guerrilla forces there. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the 30-year rebellion against Guatemala's successive repressive governments. Security forces are blamed for as many as 50,000 deaths, mostly highland Indians, during the counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s...
...Nobel Committee considered the possibility that it might seem to be honoring an advocate of guerrilla warfare but rejected the idea. Sejersted said the panel had left "no leaf unturned" in investigating her career. He did not claim that every single action she had ever taken was pacific, but "it is our clear conclusion that her long-term goal is peace...
...rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...
...Alberto Fujimori, who has turned his presidency into a virtual dictatorship, partly to quell the revolution. "Our fear was broken from one day to another," was how Isabel Coral, who works with victims of Shining Path violence, greeted the arrest. In their recent year long assault on Lima, the guerrillas had come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important, it gave the government's anti-guerrilla campaign a welcome boost. "In a struggle like this one, morale and will decide who wins," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
...obeying police orders to put on his shirt. Could this dumpy, bewildered fellow, last seen publicly in 1979, really be Shining Path's shining light? Here was the mysterious man who billed himself as the "Fourth Sword" of communism -- the successor to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin Americans may regard Che Guevara as the model guerrilla, but Guzman dismissed...