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Shining Path Documents, Rebels Seized; Shadowy Guerrilla Leader Used Safe House in Lima Near Police Station
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The Washington Post
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June 9, 1990
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The house is nondescript, tucked among others like it in one of
Lima's tonier neighborhoods with a police station down the street and
the headquarters of the Peruvian armed forces just a few blocks away.
But when police seized the building last weekend, they found the
apparent headquarters of the Shining Path, the Maoist guerrilla group
whose 10-year war against the government has cost more than 15,000
lives.
The safe house shelters a vast archive detailing how the
insurgents operate, a shrine filled with finely worked handicrafts
honoring Shining Path exploits and a bedroom apparently used by the
group's shadowy founder and supreme commander that suggests he
is-contrary to numerous ...
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