Shining Path rebels suspected in attack that kills 3 policemen, 2 women at remote post in Peru

September 13th, 2009 Peru wants lawyer for Shining Path leader chargedLIMA, Peru — Peru's justice minister says the government will ask a public prosecutor to file "apology for terrorism" charges against the lawyer for imprisoned Shining Path rebel leader Abimael Guzman. Aurelio Pastor says the request will be made Monday, three days after lawyer Alfredo Crespo announced the publication of a book of manuscripts written by Guzman in prison.

September 11th, 2009 Peru's Shining Path founder to publish bookLIMA, Peru — The jailed founder of Peru's fanatical Shining Path insurgency is publishing a book that includes manuscripts about his defense strategy during his terrorism retrial, correspondence with his longtime lover and details of his childhood, his lawyer said Friday. The manuscripts in the 408-page book were written in prison by Abimael Guzman as he prepared a legal defense for himself and 12 other Shining Path leaders in their 2006 retrial, lawyer Alfredo Crespo said.

September 3rd, 2009 Peru rebels down air force helicopter, kill 3LIMA, Peru — Drug-funded Shining Path rebels shot down an air force helicopter in Peru's coca-growing highlands, killing three troops and wounding five, Peru's joint command said Thursday. Peru's fight against the insurgency has flared up in the past week, with guerrillas ambushing army patrols and attacking an army base.

August 30th, 2009 Families bury dead from military massacre in PeruPUTIS, Peru — Victims of the worst military massacre during Peru's war with Maoist rebels were laid to rest Saturday, a quarter century after the slaughter in this remote Andean village. The burials culminated a two-day funeral procession through the southeastern state of Ayacucho, the epicenter of Peru's bloody fight with Shining Path guerrillas from 1980 to 2000.

July 28th, 2009 5 killed in attack on Colombia coca eradicatorsBOGOTA — Colombian authorities say three soldiers and two civilians have been killed in a rifle and grenade attack on a boat carrying coca eradication workers. They say six people also have wounds and six more are missing.

July 3rd, 2009 Peru bus collision kills 23 near Lake TiticacaLIMA, Peru — Two buses crashed head-on Thursday on a mountain road near Lake Titicaca in Peru, killing at least 23 people and injuring 50 more, police said. The morning crash occurred in the Santa Lucia district, about an hour's drive from Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, a Puno state highway police officer told The Associated Press by phone.

June 19th, 2009 UN: Colombia coca crop down; Peru and Bolivia upBOGOTA — Colombia's coca crop shrank by nearly a fifth last year while cultivation of the bush that is the basis of cocaine rose for a third straight year in Peru and Bolivia, the world's two other coca-producing nations, the United Nations said Friday. The U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime said the 18 percent reduction in Colombia, the world's top cocaine producer, from 2007 owed in part to record manual eradication — as opposed to aerial herbicide spraying — of 96,100 hectares (371 square miles) of the crop.

May 8th, 2009 New Yorker imprisoned in Peru gives birth to boyLIMA, Peru — An American woman serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for collaborating with leftist guerrillas gave birth Wednesday to a baby boy, her father said. New York native Lori Berenson's son was delivered by cesarean section in a civilian hospital in Lima.

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Five policemen were killed Saturday in a suicide car bomb attack in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a media report said. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden vehicle into a security check post in Doaba area of Hangu district, the private Express TV channel reported.

April 12th, 2009 LIMA - Thirteen troopers in Peru have been killed by a rebel guerrilla group, Defence Minister Antero Flores-Araoz said Sunday. According to the minister, the Shining Path guerrillas ambushed two army patrols in a jungle area in southern province of Ayacucho last Thursday, killing 13 soldiers and injuring three others.

March 25th, 2009 PATNA - Bahujan Samaj Party's (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate Arjun Ravidas was Wednesday arrested in connection with the killing of 10 policemen in Bihar's Nawada district last month. Ravidas, the BSP's candidate in the Jamui Lok Sabha seat, was arrested when he reached the district administration office to collect nomination forms, said an official.

March 23rd, 2009 KABUL - Eight policemen were killed Monday in an attack by Taliban rebels in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a police officer said. 'The Taliban insurgents attacked a police patrol in Spin Boldak town, killing eight policemen and wounding another,' Sahib Jan, commander of the Highway Police in the region, told Xinhua.

March 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Twelve militants were killed and many injured Wednesday in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal Orakzai Agency, a media report said. A drone fired missiles on a suspected hideout of militants in Khadzai area, Geo TV reported.

February 12th, 2009 PATNA - Three suspected Maoist rebels, including the head of a village panchayat, have been arrested in connection with the killing of 10 policemen in an attack by guerrillas on Feb 9 in Bihar's Nawada district, police said Friday. Mahudhar panchayat head Ram Bhuj Ravidas and two others were arrested Thursday night, Nawada Superintendent of Police Nishant Tiwari told IANS over telephone.

February 10th, 2009 PATNA - Two days after 10 policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected Maoists in a remote Bihar village, a Bihar policemen's union Wednesday has called for a 'concrete action plan' to fight the rebels. 'The police headquarters has failed to chalk out a concrete action plan till date despite the fact that dozens of policemen are being killed every year,' Bihar Policemen's Association general secretary Jitendra Narayan Singh said here.