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| Peru Shining Path head gets life | Peru Shining Path head gets life |
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| The founder of Peru's Shining Path Maoist guerrillas has been found guilty of terrorism at a retrial and been sentenced to life imprisonment. | The founder of Peru's Shining Path Maoist guerrillas has been found guilty of terrorism at a retrial and been sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| Former philosophy professor Abimael Guzman led a 12-year rebellion in the 1980s which around 70,000 people died. | Former philosophy professor Abimael Guzman led a 12-year rebellion in the 1980s which around 70,000 people died. |
| Abimael Guzman was tried after his capture in 1992 by a secret military court, but the verdict and life sentence were thrown out in 2003. | Abimael Guzman was tried after his capture in 1992 by a secret military court, but the verdict and life sentence were thrown out in 2003. |
| Guzman's partner Elena Iparraguirre, was also found guilty and given life. | Guzman's partner Elena Iparraguirre, was also found guilty and given life. |
| The verdicts took five hours to read, and Guzman stood motionless with his arms folded as the court gave its judgement. | |
| The Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, waged a violent campaign to overthrow the Peruvian state. | The Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, waged a violent campaign to overthrow the Peruvian state. |
| In 2003, a truth and reconciliation commission blamed more than 31,000 killings on the Shining Path. | In 2003, a truth and reconciliation commission blamed more than 31,000 killings on the Shining Path. |
| Guzman's lawyer had argued his client should be granted an amnesty because of violations against his right to due process. | |
| Peru's constitutional court ruled that the secret military court which originally heard the case did not give him a fair trial. | |
| Horrific massacre | Horrific massacre |
| The year-long trial was held at the high-security naval base where Guzman has been held since 1993. | |
| Survivors from a Shining Path massacre in the Andean village of Lucanamarca, where 69 peasants were shot and hacked to death as a reprisal, gathered outside the base to demand maximum sentences for the defendants. | Survivors from a Shining Path massacre in the Andean village of Lucanamarca, where 69 peasants were shot and hacked to death as a reprisal, gathered outside the base to demand maximum sentences for the defendants. |
| "They killed them with machetes, stones, axes - and for those who did not die in agony in this way, they even put them into a vat of boiling water," Ignacio Tacas, a 35-year-old farmer from the village, told the Associated Press news agency. | "They killed them with machetes, stones, axes - and for those who did not die in agony in this way, they even put them into a vat of boiling water," Ignacio Tacas, a 35-year-old farmer from the village, told the Associated Press news agency. |
| The Shining Path founder said the massacre had been a response to "reactionary military action". | The Shining Path founder said the massacre had been a response to "reactionary military action". |
| At the start of this hearing, Guzman described himself as a "revolutionary combatant" and not a terrorist. | |
| His first retrial in 2004 ended in chaos after Guzman in his defence shouted communist slogans in front of live television cameras. | |
| To avoid a repeat performance, tape recorders and cameras were banned from the courtroom for this trial. | |
| A few hundred Shining Path rebels are still operative in the country's south and south-east, but a BBC correspondent in Lima says they now pose little threat. |