The MRTA and the Shining Path are responsible for the deaths thousands of innocent civilians.
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With the exception of a few environmentalist kooks and Shining Path adherents, everybody wants strong growth.
Certainly, Shining Path's tiny rump stirred into life last year, but mainly with peaceful propagandising.
She remains a dogmatic communist, but she accepts that the Shining Path was defeated militarily.
Last Thursday, fifteen people were killed when Shining Path guerrillas ambushed a military convoy.
The government still organises a self-defence force against the remaining factions of the Shining Path.
The Shining Path began their brutal 12-year insurgency in 1980 in which 70, 000 people were killed.
It appeared to be a response to an army operation to shut down Shining Path camps.
Just last week, the Shining Path murdered fourteen (14) soldiers in the Apurimac region.
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On the war front, the MRTA and the Shining Path were being confronted both militarily and legally.
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The title was a deliberate tilt at the Shining Path, a Marxist terrorist group then active in Peru.
The San Martin region in northern Peru used to be best known for drugs and the Shining Path rebels.
The FARC also recruited people in Peru and provided weapons to the Maoist guerilla group, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path).
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He argued then that the state was in danger from the far-left Shining Path guerrillas and from congressional obstruction.
And that would provide fertile ground both for the tiny rump of the Shining Path guerrillas, or for would-be caudillos.
Shining Path terrorism is returning to the countryside in Peru, where the State Department has issued a travel warning to Americans.
The rebels abducted the workers on Monday morning in the Apurimac and Ene valleys, the last remaining stronghold of the Shining Path rebels.
However, the conflict has been largely dormant in recent years, and analysts say the Shining Path is a fraction of its former size.
On August 28th last year, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission published an exhaustive report into the violence unleashed by the Shining Path guerrillas.
Among Mr Fujimori's many enemies were not just Peru's democratic opposition, but the imprisoned leaders of the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrilla movements.
Last week, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said the Shining Path had been "totally defeated" in the Alto Huallaga Valley, once one of its key regions.
What, for instance, do the disaffected rich Arabs of al-Qaeda, motivated by heavenly virgins, have in common with the brutal Marxists of the Shining Path?
But he was soon vindicated in the eyes of most Peruvians by the capture of the leader of the main rebel group, the Shining Path.
Before being allowed to talk to Ms Iparraguirre your correspondent was required to submit to questioning by a committee of five other Shining Path prisoners.
With the help of the population, the Shining Path was crushed.
Last year, a Peruvian truth commission officially blamed the Shining Path for 54% of the deaths and disappearances that ensued during the movement's years of violent insurgency.
Garcia, himself, was once a fugitive accused of corruption after his first disastrous administration in 1987 which permitted Shining Path and MRTA terrorists to achieve enormous power.
And although not all terrorists are from poor backgrounds, or motivated by materialistic goals, most tend to survive as did the Shining Path by hiding among the world's excluded.
It came amid reports that Peru's army had launched an operation to remove some 300 Shining Path rebels who work closely with cocaine traffickers in the region.
The remnants of the Shining Path, a Maoist terrorist group, are said by some analysts to be strengthening their grip over the drug trade, in a pattern familiar in Colombia.
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