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...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 $7,000 to $20,000 for each victim...
...make matters worse for Garcia, a major operation against remaining rebel strongholds in the central jungle went south during the week, with important losses and allegations of human rights abuses. A roadside bomb detonated Oct. 9 by remnants of the Maoist Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) rebels killed 13 soldiers and two civilians, including a young boy, in the remote Huancavelica state. A soldier was killed the previous day and two others on Oct. 14. It was the deadliest attack since 10 people were killed in a bombing in Lima, the capital, in March 2002, on the eve of a visit...
...elected, Garcia will inherit daunting domestic challenges. Many of Peru's 19.2 million people live in appalling poverty, with an average per capita annual income of only $867. In the Andes, the army is at war with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott...
...more than 400 armed actions in the past two years. Most, like an ambush last July that killed five Peruvian army soldiers and two guides, have taken place in the central highland jungles, where Shining Path now taxes the lucrative coca-leaf shipments for cocaine traffickers. The revival of Sendero Luminoso, as Shining Path is known in Spanish, is a stinging sign of Peru's and South America's failure to address the epic levels of rural poverty that worsened under the capitalist reforms of the 1990s. Since locking up Shining Path's leadership a decade ago, Peru...
Still, Lituma does not believe that Shining Path, for all its ferocity, is behind the vanishing of the three men he was supposed to protect. "Does Sendero ever disappear people?" he wonders aloud. "They just kill them and leave their leaflets behind to let everybody know who did it." Instead, the corporal directs his attention to the husband and wife who own the dreary bar where the construction workers gather each night: Dionisio, who, as his name suggests, is a prodigious reveler in his own establishment, and Senora Adriana, who reads palms and is regarded by her customers...