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Internal Armed Conflict: Terrorism and State Response

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Internal Armed Conflict: Terrorism and State Response

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Shining Path started the fight by burning ballot boxes in a small town.

Many people in Peru were poor, discriminated against, and felt outside politics. Terrorist groups used this to get followers.

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Peru had a violent conflict with Shining Path and MRTA.

They made attacks in cities and villages, killing and hurting many people.

The army answered with violence too, and sometimes hurt innocent people.

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The police captured Abimael Guzmán, leader of Shining Path.

Violence started to go down, but President Fujimori used the fear of terrorism to get more power and stop protests.

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About 69,000 people died in the conflict.

Most victims were poor people from the Andes.

The war left pain, fear, and division in Peru.