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Isabel Guerra

Governmental authorities, provoked by a statement by Alfredo Crespo, Abimael Guzmán’s lawyer, stated they considered the participation of Sendero Luminoso in politics to be unacceptable.

Crespo stated the leader of the organization proposed that pardoned or released Sendero activists should be able to participate in the country’s electoral process.

“Peru should know who now wants to participate in the political life of the country, those that want to involve themselves by killing thousands and thousands of Peruvians, beginning with the poorest, the illiterate. …[Shining Path] committed a series of assassinations without remedy or pardon” stated Apra’s congressman Jorge Castillo.

According to El Comercio,  Minister Nidia Vílchez stated that “here we need to build up an effort to get out of the international crisis and lower the poverty rate in Peru; not bring up the memory of the era of terrorism, in which so many people died.”

Sendero Luminoso is a terrorist organization that provoked an internal war in Peru. This war caused almost 70,000 deaths in Peru between 1980 and 2000.

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