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Peru: the end of the Shining Path

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Is it the end of the road for Peru’s once-powerful Shining Path rebel group? The country has arrested one of the group's most notorious criminals. In Venezuela, it certainly won’t be easy to topple Hugo Chavez, but Henrique Capriles Radonski is taking on the task. Finally, two years after the explosion of its underwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is expected to pay out between 20 and 25 billion dollars to the US government in compensation.

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Shinning Path Peru

by Anonyme - 16/02/2012 - 13:32

As a peruvian, i was horrified to hear the way this channel reported the news of the recent capture of "Comrade Artemio", sought after terrorist, calling Peru's struggle with 20 year terrorism was called a "civil war". Peru suffered 20 years of unbearable terrorism in which nearly 69,300 victims perished at the hands of one of the bloodiest terrorist organisations in the world. Even now we are dealing with the unhealed wounds of this period. Calling it a civil war, is not only not accurate, but offensive to the victims, their families and any peruvian who remembers this tragic period in our history.

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