document: A death squad opposed to the Shining Path guerrillas has threatened to kill a district attorney if he investigates charges that soldiers massacred dozens of peasants , his office said Tuesday . Police said members of Shining Path , a Maoist group , killed two policemen and wounded three in jungle raids . The Rodrigo Franco Command , which has vowed to kill a Shining Path member or sympathizer for every person slain by guerrillas , issued the threat against District Attorney Carlos Escobar on Monday , according to his office in Andean city of Ayacucho . Escobar is investigating charges that troops rounded up dozens of peasants , accused them of being Shining Path members and killed them . The alleged massacre occurred in May near Cayara , a farming village 40 miles south of Ayacucho . Officials said the rebel raids occurred Sunday , at a police post and telephone relay station near the jungle city of Pucallpa , 325 miles northeast of Lima . Shining Path guerrillas began fighting eight years ago . The government says more than 15,000 people have been killed and puts the property damage at $ 10 billion . The Rodrigo Franco group is named for an official of the government party killed the Shining Path killed last year . It became known in July when it claimed responsibility for killing the lawyer for Osman Morote . He is suspected of being the Shining Path second-in-command and is in jail on terrorism charges .
extractive_keyphrases: rodrigo franco command osman morote property damage shining path guerrillas death squad district attorney carlos escobar rebel raids police post