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Old 12-08-2011, 07:53   #1
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Shining Path Faction Admits Defeat

"Comrade Artemio", who leads one wing of splintered group, admits Maoists have lost their war against Peru's government.

About 70,000 people were killed from 1980 to 2000 in a war between the Shining Path and Peru's government
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Kudos to the QPs in here who have helped this one along over the last couple of decades.

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Leader Of Shining Path Faction Admits Aefeat
AlJ, 8 Dec 2011

One of two remaining leaders of the Shining Path rebel group in Peru said that his troops will cease attacks and is calling for a truce to start peace negotiations with the government.

Known as Comrade Artemio, Jose Flores Hala told journalists last week in his jungle hideout that he "isn't going to deny" that the government won in its war against the Maoist rebels, Peruvian media reported on Wednesday.

Flores, however, couldn't speak for another Shining Path leader, known only as Comrade Jose, who has not declared a truce.

Flores is based in the Huallaga Valley in central Peru, a centre of coca production, while Comrade Jose is in the Apurimac-Ene river valley in the country's southeast, where coca production is also rampant.

Flores said his roughly 150 guerrillas would not demobilise without a "process of frank and real negotiations". But, he told reporters, "We have no intention to brandish arms of war in armed struggle".

The Shining Path has shrunk since its heyday in the 1980s when it controlled large areas of the Peruvian countryside.

Some 70,000 people were killed between 1980 and 2000 as the Peruvian government waged war on the Shining Path and a rival leftist guerrilla group, the Tupac Amaru movement, according to Peru's independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Government troops captured leader Abimael Guzman in 1992 and his successor Comrade Feliciano in 1999. The group has since split into the two factions.

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Old 12-08-2011, 10:59   #2
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Thanks for the post

I worked in SOUTHCOM for 4 yrs and while I didn't get to work against SL, I remember an UNCLASS bulletin for the widest possible distribution about their brutality against villages and innocents. What a disgusting group of people whom I hope God has a special place in hell open and waiting for them.

Beer in tribute for any 7th grp guys who helped shut those assholes down.
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Old 12-10-2011, 13:24   #3
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Always a good thing when vicious, Communist hypocrite totalitarian wannabe's are soundly defeated.
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Old 12-10-2011, 14:06   #4
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Always a good thing when vicious, Communist hypocrite totalitarian wannabe's are soundly defeated.
Not soundly defeated. Artemio is one of two column's and Jose is working hand in hand with the cocaine production in the main valley. The money that they have gotten from the drug business in the last 2-4 years has kept them afloat.

This is a good step forward but Artemios group has to turn them self's in first.
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Old 03-19-2012, 05:28   #5
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Job well done

I worked in Peru in 2005 and 2007 and I would have to say that the Peruvian Army AND Police really stepped up.

On my first trip, I was honored to work with one of the officers that was on the 1997 raid on the Japanese Embassy. He was a rising star but in a good way. Sort of a Peruvian Bull Simons that looked after his men and took the fight to the enemy.

On my second trip I worked with his younger brother out in Iquitos. He called his brother so I could speak to him while he was commanding special operations against the Tupac Amaru I think in Ayacucho (can't remember, we were looking at trying to get a mission there but milgrp...aka Frank H. didn't want us near there).

If those two brothers are the future of Peru's Armed Forces, they are in good hands and we will have an excellent ally there for years to come!
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Old 03-19-2012, 07:08   #6
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Always a good thing when vicious, Communist hypocrite totalitarian wannabe's are soundly defeated.
THE most vicious.
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Great Job 7th Gp.
Now we have to get busy dealing with the socialists at home......
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Old 04-16-2012, 05:07   #8
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Kidnapped workers freed

By FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press
LIMA, Peru April 15, 2012 (AP)

Thirty-six kidnapped construction workers walked out of Peru's jungle to freedom Saturday after being released by Shining Path rebels who abducted them five days earlier from a town near the country's main natural gas fields.

President Ollanta Humala told the Peruvian radio station RPP that the guerrillas freed the captives as troops and police were closing in. He said no negotiations with the rebels had taken place.

"Seeing themselves surrounded, they released the 36 hostages," Humala said from the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. He said the operations by security forces will continue until they track down the kidnappers.

Some other foreign press sources I'd seen mentioned a 60-day declaration of national emergency and deployment of a force of 1,600 that apparently - literally - went on the hunt for these knuckleheads curry-combin' the countryside, ready to bring some rain. Apparently the kidnappers hadn't lost all their situational awareness... and good training sticks.

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