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Peru: Shining Path splinter group kills 14 in pre-election jungle massacre [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Peru: Shining Path splinter group kills 14 in pre-election jungle massacre
• Two children among dead in remote hamlet
• Leaflets threaten voters for rightwing candidate Keiko Fujimori
Dan Collynsin Lima
@yachay_dc
Mon 24 May 2021 23.08 BST
At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed by a splinter group of the Shining Path rebel group, in a brutal attack on a remote jungle hamlet, according to Peru’s military.
Leaflets reportedly scattered at the site of Sunday’s massacre warned locals to boycott upcoming presidential elections next month and said anyone who voted for the rightwing candidate Keiko Fujimori would be considered a “traitor”.
The military called the murders “an act of genocide” and said the Shining Path had previously labeled such attacks a form of “social cleansing”. The statement assured Peruvians of “a secure electoral process”. They added the bodies of the victims had yet to be identified.
The massacre took place just two weeks before a polarised second-round ballot between three-time candidate Fujimori, the daughter of the jailed 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori, and the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, whose party Perú Libre is accused of containing MPs with links to Shining Path and the rival rebel group MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Army) which both battled the state in a conflict that killed more than 69,000 in the 1980s and 90s.
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• Two children among dead in remote hamlet
• Leaflets threaten voters for rightwing candidate Keiko Fujimori
Dan Collynsin Lima
@yachay_dc
Mon 24 May 2021 23.08 BST
At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed by a splinter group of the Shining Path rebel group, in a brutal attack on a remote jungle hamlet, according to Peru’s military.
Leaflets reportedly scattered at the site of Sunday’s massacre warned locals to boycott upcoming presidential elections next month and said anyone who voted for the rightwing candidate Keiko Fujimori would be considered a “traitor”.
The military called the murders “an act of genocide” and said the Shining Path had previously labeled such attacks a form of “social cleansing”. The statement assured Peruvians of “a secure electoral process”. They added the bodies of the victims had yet to be identified.
The massacre took place just two weeks before a polarised second-round ballot between three-time candidate Fujimori, the daughter of the jailed 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori, and the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, whose party Perú Libre is accused of containing MPs with links to Shining Path and the rival rebel group MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Army) which both battled the state in a conflict that killed more than 69,000 in the 1980s and 90s.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/peru-shining-path-jungle-massacre
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