Does Shining Path still exist? Peru asks after massacre blamed on group 2 minutes read
By Alvaro Mellizo
Lima, May 27 (EFE).- Shining Path, the Maoist-inspired insurgency that rocked Peru in the 1980s, has been blamed for a massacre carried out two weeks before a presidential election, yet many in the Andean nation whether the group known in Spanish as Sendero Luminoso continues to exist.
The only certainty about the events of the wee hours of Monday at a bar in the southern municipality of Vizcatan del Ene is that 16 people, including four minors, were slain.
For the Peruvian right, led by presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and former Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi, the responsibility for those deaths unquestionably lies with Sendero.
Two children and 16 adults were shot dead in a remote coca-growing area of Peru, the armed forces said Monday, blaming the attack on members of the Shining Path guerrilla group. The killings late Sunday risk inflaming tensions amid a polarized campaign for the presidency between leftist Pedro
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The killings late on Sunday risk inflaming tensions amid a polarised campaign for the presidency between leftist Pedro Castillo and his rival from the right, Keiko Fujimori
Two children and 16 adults were shot dead in a remote coca-growing area of Peru, the armed forces said on Monday, blaming the attack on members of the Shining Path guerrilla group.
The killings late on Sunday risk inflaming tensions amid a polarised campaign for the presidency between leftist Pedro Castillo and his rival from the right, Keiko Fujimori.
The villagers were mowed down at San Miguel del Ene in a coca-growing valley where members of the Maoist Shining Path group operate, according to the joint command of the armed forces.