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Peru's Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman speaks out at preliminary hearing.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
newspaper La Republica web site on 29 March; subheading as published
At a cross-examination with Special Judge Javier Llaque Moya and Prosecutor Edith Chamorro Bermudez, Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso, alias "President Gonzalo", admitted being the founder and the leader of the Shining Path terrorist group but rejected any blame for the deaths and destruction caused by this subversive organization in Peru since May 1980.
Legal sources reported that during his first day of questioning held in the Naval Base in Callao, they only asked him general questions and read him his rights, according to the …
