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Shining Path linked to drug trafficking

By Naomi Mapstone in Lima

Published: October 11 2008 02:33 | Last updated: October 11 2008 02:33

An ambush by Shining Path guerrillas in a mountainous coca-growing region in Peru’s south-east killed 12 soldiers and 7 civilians, the military said on Friday.

The Shining Path, a radical Maoist group that killed tens of thousands of people during the 1980s, has been largely inactive since the 1992 capture of its leader, Abimael Guzman.

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