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Peru Fears Reemergence of Violent Rebels; Shining Path Movement Aided by Drug Traffickers, Police Allege
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The Washington Post
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December 10, 2001
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In the mountains around this jungle town recently weaned from an
economy based on illegal drug traffic, the stirrings of a dormant
guerrilla organization are raising fears that terrorism is regaining
a foothold in Peru's countryside.
A column of rebels from the Shining Path, a radical Maoist
movement that terrorized Peru in the 1980s and early 1990s, assaulted
the army barracks in nearby Nuevo Progreso in June after harassing
neighboring towns for several weeks. Although no one was killed, the
attack coincided with what police officials here said has been a
spike in drug cultivation in these eastern forests and a surge in
guerrilla activity, including a Shining Path ambush in August about ...
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