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Peruvian POWs Rescued
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 11
[Editor's Note: Since 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) has waged a people's war in an effort to overthrow the US supported regime in Peru. That struggle suffered a major setback in 1992 when the party's chairman, Abimael Guzman, and several members of the central committee were captured by ...
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Political Prisoners,
Crime/Demographics,
Escapes,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Peru.
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