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THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly 18,000 killed since 1980 (the majority of them civilians) died at the hands of the security forces.
"Horrendous," was the reaction from Americas Watch. "Lure of the Iron Fist," reported the Miami Herald.
Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism by Gabriela Tarazona- Sevillano with John B. Reuter, Center for Strategic and International Studies/ Praeger, 1990, 168 pp.
Killer Coca After failing for years to curb South America's coca leaf crops, U.S.
OCTOBER 1982. IN THE COMMUNITY OF NIN- acushma, of the department of Huancavelica, a guer- rilla column is holding one of its habitual sessions of indoc- trination.
IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de Salinas, in the department of Puno near the Bolivian border. ZenobioHuarsala knew who they were after.
José Luis Rénique
MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert landscape is laid bare.
Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel- gium, where he lives in exile.
PERU'S FORMER PRESIDENT FERNANDO BE- latinde Terry is someone for whom proper manners are paramount. Every time he had to say something about the guerrilla movement growing in the mountains, he would simply label it "terrorist"; the word implied such a departure from acceptable behavior that no more needed to be said.