Does Shining Path still exist? Peru asks after massacre blamed on group
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By Alvaro Mellizo
Lima, May 27 (EFE).- Shining Path, the Maoist-inspired insurgency that rocked Peru in the 1980s, has been blamed for a massacre carried out two weeks before a presidential election, yet many in the Andean nation whether the group known in Spanish as Sendero Luminoso continues to exist.
The only certainty about the events of the wee hours of Monday at a bar in the southern municipality of Vizcatan del Ene is that 16 people, including four minors, were slain.
For the Peruvian right, led by presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and former Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi, the responsibility for those deaths unquestionably lies with Sendero.