Wogan backs Norton at Eurovision Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 08:17 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:17 UK. Sir Terry (r) hosted Eurovision for decades before Norton took over. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
UK swine flu response criticised Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 08:59 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:59 UK. Flu response 'under-prepared. (BBC News -- Health)
Government advice urges tweeting Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 23:08 GMT, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:08 UK. Tweeting should take less than an hour a day, the advice says. (BBC News -- Technology)
Robotic firefighting team debuts Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 13:56 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 14:56 UK. By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Technology)
Vestas in legal bid to end sit-in Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 03:40 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 04:40 UK. Workers inside the factory say they will stay for "as long as it takes". (BBC News -- UK)
Pregnant Briton 'to leave Laos' Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 22:05 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 23:05 UK. Pregnant Briton 'to leave Laos. (BBC News -- UK)
Warning over constitution reforms Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 00:49 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 01:49 UK. The future make-up of the House of Lords is uncertain. (BBC News -- UK)
Report warns over social services Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 23:49 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:49 UK. Baby Peter was on Haringey Council's child protection register when he died. (BBC News -- UK)
Break up the big banks says Cable Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 21:39 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:39 UK. Vince Cable said it could take 10 years to turn the banks around. (BBC News -- UK)
Hostages' bodies flown home Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 08:11 GMT, Friday, 26 June 2009 09:11 UK. Bodies of UK hostages flown home. (BBC News -- UK)
Force breath tests 20,700 drivers Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 07:13 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 08:13 UK. Motorists face at least a year's driving ban if caught over the limit. (BBC News -- UK)
Reel value of sea angling studied Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 23:14 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:14 UK. A study into the value of sea angling is set to be launched. (BBC News -- UK)
Mini tornado wreaks havoc on isle Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 06:27 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 07:27 UK. The tornado flipped this car onto its side. (BBC News -- UK)
Older people on 'drugs cocktail' Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 23:52 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:52 UK. Older people on 'drugs cocktail. (BBC News -- UK)
Family deceived Jul 29, 2009
Page last updated at 16:27 GMT, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 17:27 UK. How 'kind' boyfriend became violent bully. (BBC News -- UK)
Profile: Kerr Neilson Jul 22, 2009
Best investment Aggressively accumulating a lot of Peruvian shares when Sendero Luminoso [the terrorist organisation Shining Path] was attempting to take control over all of that country. Worst investment Too many shockers to recount. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
More time for Fujimori Jul 21, 2009
Many Peruvians credit Fujimori with crushing two leftist insurgencies that plagued the country the Tupac Amaru guerrillas and the Maoist Shining Path rebels during his iron-fisted presidency. His brutal tactics came back to haunt him though in the courtroom. (iAfrica.com)
Fujimori sentenced for embezzlement Jul 21, 2009
The former president still enjoys some popularity for neutralizing Shining Path guerrillas that nearly toppled the government, but a series of recent trials have tied him to corruption and human rights abuses. During his defense, Fujimori said his previous convictions and the embezzlement case were politically motivated, and he did not expect to find justice in court. (MSNBC -- International)
$19m bonus: Fujimori sentenced for corruption Jul 21, 2009
Many Peruvians credit Fujimori with crushing two leftist insurgencies that plagued the country - the Tupac Amaru guerrillas and the Maoist Shining Path rebels - during his iron-fisted presidency. A three-judge court in Lima sentenced Fujimori to 25 years prison in April after he was found guilty of authorising the operations of an army death squad that killed 25 civilians in two bloodbaths in 1991 and 1992 and of ordering the kidnapping of a businessman and a journalist in 1992. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Peru’s Fujimori gets 7 1/2 years in prison for bribery Jul 21, 2009
During his first term that began in 1990, Fujimori was praised for defeating the brutal Shining Path guerrillas and ending hyperinflation. But public opinion later turned against him over his autocratic style and a series of bribery scandals. (Boston Globe)
Peru's Fujimori sentenced to 7.5 years for corruption Jul 21, 2009
com - Peru's Fujimori sentenced to 7. 5 years for corruption. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Fujimori Gets 7 1/2 Years for Embezzlement Jul 21, 2009
The former President still enjoys some popularity for neutralizing Shining Path guerrillas that nearly toppled the government, but a series of recent trials have tied him to corruption and human-rights abuses. The court also ruled that Fujimori must join three former Cabinet Ministers in contributing to a $1 million reparations payment to the government. (Time.com)
Peru's Fujimori Admits Irregular Payments In Trial Jul 14, 2009
Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in April for overseeing death squad activity that claimed 25 lives during his 1990-2000 rule as his government fought Maoist Shining Path guerrillas ... Keiko leads several opinion polls on the strength of her father's lingering popularity for neutralizing the bloody, Shining Path insurgency. (CBS News -- World)
Ex-Peru president's embezzlement trial opens Jul 14, 2009
He is credited with restoring economic stability to the country and defeating the Shining Path guerillas, who carried out terrorist attacks. But Fujimori had an authoritarian streak that led to accusations of human rights abuses and corruption. (CNN -- World)
Peru Jungle Riots Provide `Opportunity' for Property Reform, De Soto Says Jul 9, 2009
De Soto, who survived several assassination attempts by Perus Shining Path guerrillas, said he told Garcia about his plans to push the property rights proposal now and received the presidents support. Friedman, Thatcher. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Peru revokes land decrees Jun 19, 2009
The Bagua clashes were the bloodiest since the government's war in the 1980s and 1990s against the Shining Path, a violent Maoist insurgency, and the leftist Tupac Amaru guerrillas. Zapata also urged the government to lift the curfew and state of emergency rules imposed on Bagua and drop all charges against protest leaders. (iAfrica.com)
Peru readers describe clashes Jun 16, 2009
People are worried this will provoke activity in the south, where the Shining Path guerrilla groups still operate. RENA GUENDUEZ, DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST, TARAPOTO. (BBC News -- Americas)
Still marching May 27, 2009
Other borders are with Panama, which has no army; Peru, still unable to defeat the remnants of its own rebel force, the Shining Path; and Brazil, whose border sweeps into the Amazon basin, where visibility is reduced to a few metres amid the triple-canopy jungle. Farc loses arms and ammunition in raids, but is far from defeat. (BBC News -- Americas)
Cocaine trade revitalizes Peruvian rebels May 11, 2009
Until January, makeshift huts of wood and plastic housed scores of refugees from a government offensive against a small but lethal band of drug-funded rebels, revitalized remnants of the fanatical Shining Path guerrilla movement ... The gateway to the Shining Path's jungle-draped stronghold, Union Mantaro is a bumpy two-day drive down the Andes' eastern slopes from the provincial capital of Ayacucho, where the movement was born nearly three decades ago ... The government says the repackaged... (MSNBC -- International)
U.S. Citizen Imprisoned in Peru Gives Birth to Boy May 7, 2009
The Cuban-inspired Tupac Amaru guerrillas best known for their four-month takeover of the Japanese ambassador's residence in 1996 in Lima and the larger Shining Path rebel group plunged Peru into chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s. But unlike the bloodier, Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which was known for wholesale massacres, the Tupac Amaru cultivated a Robin Hood image, distributing food from hijacked trucks in poor neighborhoods. (Fox News)
An interview with Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo May 3, 2009
Peruvian writer Santiago Roncagliolo gained international recognition with his 2005 novel "Pudor" ("Prudishness") and in 2006 became the youngest writer ever to win the Alfaguara Prize for his novel "Red April." In this superb novel of politics, terror, and human frailty, Felix Chacaltana, an assistant prosecutor, confronts a series of murders that may have roots in Peru's resurgent Maoist guerrilla group, the Shining Path ... Roncagliolo has written a biography of the Abimael Guzman, Shining... (Boston Globe)
Diverse Delights Three of Lima's Be... May 2, 2009
Museo de la Nacion from Pre-Colombian to Shining Path ... For example the folkloric gallery shows the how past and present are connected as well as the variety of local arts and the top floor multi-media installation on the Shining Path years is good if challenging. (Suite101.com)
Newsweek: Foreign policy challenges of next 100 days Apr 30, 2009
Perus Shining Path is up and running again, and the banana republic strongmen in Morales, Chavez, and Ortega,all of whom gave Obama a dressing down that Reagan never would have stood for, are as surly as ever. Mexico of course, is in shambles, fighting off both a literal insurrection and the flu all at once. (MSNBC -- Politics)
* Leftist rebels vow to launch more attacks against Perus army Apr 16, 2009
Leftist rebels in Peru will launch more attacks against the army, a commander of a remnant band of Shining Path guerrillas said after their 11th deadly ambush in rugged coca-growing regions this year ... A series of clashes has ended several years of relative calm and though the size of the Shining Path has dwindled to about 300, it has bought more powerful weapons with profits from the drug trade in the worlds No. 2 cocaine producer ... The Shining Path waged a war against the state for... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Bitter taste Apr 16, 2009
The San Martin region in northern Peru used to be best known for drugs and the Shining Path rebels ... " He said 23,000 families now benefit from co-operatives growing coffee, cocoa and palm hearts but the organisations need more private investment and credit to help them through the financial crisis. But drugs policy analyst Ricardo Soberon disputes that figure. One of the reasons the co-operative movement has not taken off, he says, is that it is too closely linked to international market... (BBC News)
* Thirteen dead in Shining Path attack Apr 13, 2009
Thirteen dead in Shining Path attack ... Peruvian Defense Minister Antero Flores Araoz said on Saturday the attackers from the Shining Path rebel group used dynamite and grenades, and their victims included a captain, a junior officer and 11 soldiers ... The ambush came only hours after one soldier was killed and four were wounded in another Shining Path attack on a military patrol in the same area of Ayacucho department, 550km southeast of the capital Lima. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
13 Peruvian Soldiers Dead in Ambushes Apr 12, 2009
"Twelve (from the second patrol) have been found dead in a ravine, and some of their weapons have been taken surely by the Shining Path," Defense Minister Antero Flores-Araoz told reporters late Saturday. The Maoist Shining Path once boasted 10,000 fighters and rocked the capital with nearly daily car bombings before fading after the capture of its founder in 1992. (Time.com)
Peru military says 13 soldiers dead in ambushes Apr 12, 2009
The Defense minister is blaming the Maoist Shining Path, which once boasted 10,000 fighters and rocked Lima with daily car bombings. The group faded to about 500 rebels after the capture of its founder in 1992. (WCAX.com, VT)
Rebels kill 13 soldiers in Peru Apr 12, 2009
Peru's Shining Path rebels have killed 13 soldiers in two ambushes in the south-east of the country, the country's defence minister says ... Prime Minister Yehude Simon condemned the ambushes as "desperate responses by the Shining Path in the face of advances by the armed forces" ... Last year, the Shining Path sprang back from relative obscurity to launch a series of deadly attacks, killing some 25 soldiers and police officers in ambushes and gun battles. (BBC News)
Fujimori fallout Apr 10, 2009
They can count on the appeal Mr Fujimori still has among many poorer Peruvians who are grateful to him for stabilising the economy, attracting foreign capital and for ending the war in the eighties and nineties against the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla movement in which 70,000 people died ... " Other analysts have speculated about whether President Alan Garcia might wade in to support a Fujimorista candidate and to support the campaign to release Alberto Fujimori. Mr Garcia's first... (BBC News -- Americas)
Daughter launches crusade to clear Fujimori Apr 9, 2009
Collecting signaturesA three-judge Supreme Court panel found Alberto Fujimori guilty of 25 murders in two operations by a military hit squad it said was created to fight the terror of the Shining Path insurgency with state-organized terror. There was no question, the court found, that Fujimori authorized the hit squad's creation. (MSNBC -- International)
Fujimori found guilty of rights abuses Apr 9, 2009
Judge Cesar San Martin told the courtroom that Fujimori was responsible for the actions of the Colina unit, blamed for killing dozens of people as the government sought to halt the Shining Path rebel group ... Fujimori, who is already serving a six-year sentence on separate charges involving abuse of power, led Peru from 1990 to 2000, at the height of the country's war with the radical Maoist Shining Path guerrillas and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. (CNN -- International)
Fujimori's Last Stand: Peru's Ex-President Found Guilty Apr 9, 2009
As a result, Fujimori was convicted on Tuesday of being the "indirect perpetrator" of at least 25 murders and two kidnappings in the early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path ... Fujimori quickly tackled the hyperinflation, and in 1992 his security forces arrested Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman in a counterinsurgency war that saw more than 70,000 Peruvians... (Time.com)
Former Peruvian President Fujimori's conviction a milestone Apr 8, 2009
Fujimori, who was elected in 1990, was widely popular for free-market economic policies that saved Peru from near collapse and for defeating the Shining Path guerrilla fighters. But amid corruption charges, his administration faltered and he fled to Japan, where his parents were born, in 2000. (Christian Science Monitor)
Formerpresident of Peru sentenced to 25 years Apr 8, 2009
LIMA, Peru - A special tribunal convicted former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of murder and kidnapping on Tuesday and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, saying he authorized a government death squad during the Shining Path insurgency ... Presiding judge Cesar San Martin told a hushed courtroom there was no question Fujimori authorized the creation of the Colina unit, which the court said killed at least 50 people during its 15 months as the state crushed the fanatical Shining Path... (MSNBC -- International)
Ex-Peru President Guilty Of Murder Apr 8, 2009
The three-judge court said Tuesday there was no question Fujimori authorized the hit squad's creation and a cover-up of its 50 murders as he crushed the fanatical Shining Path insurgency. "All the cases have been proven beyond all reasonable doubt," presiding Judge Cesar San Martin told a hushed courtroom. (CBS News)
Verdict Due In Murder Trial Of Peru's Fujimori Apr 8, 2009
The squad, known as the Colina group, had erred: The alleged Shining Path rebel sympathizers they were seeking were on a different floor of the same building in the Barrios Altos district ... Although many blame Fujimori for authorizing the kidnappings and killings, he remains remarkably popular for reviving a crippled economy and crushing the fanatical Shining Path during his 1990-2000 rule ... It was from Garcia, who preceded him in office, that Fujimori inherited the Shining Path war, which... (CBS News -- World)
Signs emerge of global crime wave Apr 7, 2009
In Peru, the pervasive lure of illicit drug profits is reflected in the re-emergence of the Shining Path guerrilla movement - this time as a cocaine smuggling operation. Originally a revolutionary Maoist organization, the Shining Path largely disappeared after its messianic leader, Abimael Guzman, was captured by Peruvian anti-terrorist agents in 1992. (Asia Times Online)
Peru U-turn on war museum funds Apr 7, 2009
Some 70,000 people died during the conflict between state forces and Maoist Shining Path guerrillas ... Mr Garcia's initial refusal to accept the donation brought into focus his own record on human rights dating back to his first presidency in the late 1980s - one the worst periods in Peru's civil war between state forces and the Shining Path rebels. (BBC News -- Americas)
Fujimori verdict Apr 7, 2009
Fernando Ayala is originally from the Andean region of Ayacucho, the birthplace of the Shining Path and the heart of the violence in the 1980s and 1990s ... In those days we slept in the mountains, we never stayed in our houses because we were scared of the Shining Path and the army ... If the Shining Path found you they would take you away to fight for them - to be a terrorist - and if the soldiers got you they would kill you, even if you were a teenager. (BBC News)
Fujimori awaits his fate in landmark Peru trial Apr 7, 2009
"Fujimori is innocent, the poor thing. He shouldn't be on trial. It's unjust what they're doing with someone who freed us of the terrorism of Shining Path (rebels)," one resident, Cleofe Santiago, 37, told AFP. ... The ex-president is accused of being the top authority behind an army squad known as La Colina, described as part of a government "dirty war" against Shining Path and Tupac Amaru rebels. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Verdict due in Fujimori's trial Apr 7, 2009
There was no proof, he said, that he had overseen a death squad as part of a "dirty war" against suspected Maoist Shining Path guerrillas in the early 1990s. His testimony followed that of more than 80 witnesses in over 150 court sessions. (BBC News -- Americas)
A global epidemic of violent crime Apr 7, 2009
Originally a revolutionary Maoist organization, the Shining Path largely disappeared after its messianic leader, Abimael Guzmn, was captured by Peruvian anti-terrorist agents in 1992. Recently, however, a surviving faction of the group has reappeared in a remote, impoverished jungle redoubt, promoting the growing of coca and its refinement into cocaine. (Salon)
* Fujimori swings at Perus ex-leaders Apr 5, 2009
He also argued that Fernando Belaunde X Peruvian president from 1980 to 1985 X never faced trial for the thousands of deaths and disappearances that occurred in Perus highlands after he turned Perus army loose on Maoist Shining Path rebels in 1983 ... Nearly 70,000 Peruvians were killed between 1980 and 2000 in the war against the Shining Path ... He is credited by many Peruvians with stamping out the Shining Path. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Nation divided Apr 5, 2009
To some it is shameful and wrong that Alberto Fujimori - the man they credit with putting the economy back on track and defeating the brutal Mao-inspired insurgency of the Shining Path - should now be on trial ... Mr Garcia's first presidency immediately preceded Mr Fujimori's and his mandate saw gross human rights violations committed in the fight against the Shining Path. (BBC News -- Americas)
Fujimori hits out as trial ends Apr 4, 2009
There was no proof, he said, that he had overseen a death squad as part of a dirty war against suspected Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. "I completely reject that I gave any orders in an allegedly parallel system to put into practice a dirty war to defeat terrorism," he said. (BBC News -- Americas)
Fujimori Swings at Peru's Ex-Presidents in Defense Apr 4, 2009
On the second and final day of his personal defense in the 15 month-trial, Peru's former leader told a packed court that the proceedings amounted to political persecution and he denied the charges against him, which arise from his 1990-2000 presidency when his government battled Maoist Shining Path guerrillas ... He also argued that Fernando Belaunde _ Peru's president from 1980-1985 _ never faced trial for the thousands of deaths and disappearances that occurred in Peru's highlands after he... (Newsmax)
Masekela: Exile tough Apr 3, 2009
If we could beat that and have a major festival of tolerance, it would be the shining path. CNN: Where do you like to go out in Jo' burg. (CNN -- International)
Fujimori's outburst: I restored peace Apr 3, 2009
Fujimori initially earned great support for his stabilisation of the economy and crackdown on the Shining Path insurgents. But rampant corruption, human rights abuses and the intimidation of media and the opposition weakened his government, and he fled into exile in Japan - his ancestral homeland - amid a corruption scandal in 2000. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Former Peruvian leader reiterates claims of innocence Apr 3, 2009
He is accused of ordering two massacres that killed 25 people and designing a dirty war strategy to combat leftist insurgents including the Maoist Shining Path group and the Tupac Amaru guerrilla movement during his 1990 to 2000 presidency. If convicted, the 70-year-old faces up to 30 years in prison. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Fujimori defends himself at trial Apr 2, 2009
He said he had rescued Peru from the bottom of the abyss when he became president in 1990, at the height of a bloody civil conflict with the Maoist-inspired Shining Path ... The prosecution accuses Mr Fujimori of directing a dirty war against suspected Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. (BBC News -- Americas)
* Fujimoris defense lawyer points to Peruvian president Apr 1, 2009
He denies ordering a dirty war against Maoist Shining Path rebels who nearly brought the government to its knees in the late 1980s, but faded after the capture of its leader, Abimael Guzman, in 1992. Nearly 70,000 Peruvians died in the conflict. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
* Fujimori's daughter says history will be written at ballot box Mar 26, 2009
He denies authorizing a dirty war against the Shining Path and its sympathizers, and says he had no knowledge of death squad activity until after the massacres. A verdict by the three-judge panel is expected next month. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
• Events Calendar Mar 20, 2009
"Paloma de Papel" (Paper Dove) is the story of a young Peruvian boy who is kidnapped by the Shining Path guerrillas and forced to take part in the country's bloody civil war. Film is in Spanish with English subtitles. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Violence returns to Peru's remote jungle Mar 18, 2009
Montaro was killed during an ambush by Shining Path guerrillas in the Valley of the Rivers Apurimac and Ene(VRAE), in Ayacucho Province, Peru ... The harrowing tales of violence trickling out of the jungle, as dozens of families have fled their villages in recent months, sound as though they were plucked from the worst days of the war against the Shining Path rebels two decades ago ... The Shining Path controls a large part of the cocaine trade here, and as Peru's production has thrived, the... (International Herald Tribune)
