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Two die in Peru as rebels shoot down helicopter

Maoist guerrillas in Peru shot down a Peruvian air force helicopter, killing two airmen and wounding a third, the nation's defense minister has said.

Ex-Peruvian president sentenced for giving spy chief $15 million

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced Monday to seven and a half years in prison for paying his one-time spy chief a $15 million bonus out of the government treasury.

Shining Path rebels stage comeback in Peru

A brutal Maoist guerrilla group that terrorized Peru during the 1980s but pretty much disappeared when top leaders were captured in the 1990s is making a resurgence.

Former Peruvian president found guilty of rights abuses

A three-judge panel of the Peruvian Supreme Court found former President Alberto Fujimori guilty Tuesday on charges involving human rights violations, including murder and kidnapping, and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Time.com: Think Bush Has It Bad? Look at Peru's President

The country is in the middle of an economic boom so why is everyone so down on Alan Garcia?

Peru's military blames Shining Path for deadly attack

Maoist insurgents killed a dozen soldiers and two civilians during an ambush in southeastern Peru, the military said Friday.

Ex-spy chief: Fujimori innocent in death squad killings

The trial of former President Alberto Fujimori opened here Monday with his former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, declaring his boss innocent of the charges he faces.

Mass grave uncovered in Peru

Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents.

Peru to protest Europe on terrorism

Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.

Death squad members convicted in Peru

The former director of national intelligence in Peru was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday for his role in the deaths of nine college students and a professor in 1992.

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