From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Radio Havana condemns Shining Path and Army.
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:28:17 GMT


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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) 
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