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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
An investigation by a Peruvian newspaper has found five remote areas of jungle in Junin and Ayacucho departments where about 200 families of landless Indian peasants, almost all from the Ashaninka ethnic group, are held as virtual slaves by remnants of the Shining Path (SL) guerrilla group. The hostile terrain and the itinerant lifestyle imposed upon them by the SL members, makes it very difficult for the authorities to rescue these families, who have been told by their captors that if they try to escape, they will be imprisoned or killed by government officials. The following is the text of the report, published by La ...