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Caribbean-Latin America
Retrial Starts for Shining Path Founder
2005-09-27
Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a rebellion that left almost 70,000 people dead, went on trial again Monday with his attorney predicting he'll receive the same life sentence that was thrown out two years ago.

About 18 police stood guard in the courtroom in the maximum security naval base prison in Lima's port of Callao, where the 70-year-old former philosophy professor has been held since April 1993. The retrial reunited Guzman with nine of his top commanders, including his longtime lover and second-in-command, Elena Iparraguirre. Guzman and the others are charged with terrorism for an array of massacres, car bombings and acts of sabotage that date back to the 1980 start of Shining Path insurgency.
Posted by:Fred

#1  This maoist scumbag is still around?

70,000 people dead and he deserves another trial?

Posted by: john   2005-09-27 18:22  

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