From: v131mdqm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Andrew I Baudo)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:11:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <9301090728.AA19591@tba.msi.corne>, harelb@math.cornell.edu writes...
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>From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
>Subject: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path and Army.
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>   "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 [..]
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>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 
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>/* 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) 
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>The following is a R. Havana commentary:
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>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)