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Viewing cable 08LIMA1938, PERU: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08LIMA1938 2008-12-19 17:10 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHPE #1938/01 3541710
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 191710Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY LIMA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9760
UNCLAS LIMA 001938 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT. FOR S/CT:RSHORE AND NCTC 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ASEC PTER PE
SUBJECT: PERU: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM 
 
REF: STATE 120019 
 
 
1. (U) Embassy point of contact is John Robertson 
(robertsonjc@state.gov or  51-1-618-2514). 
 
2. (SBU) Text of draft submission follows: 
 
Peru 
 
Peru's primary counterterrorism concern remained fighting 
remnants of the militant Maoist Sendero Luminoso (SL or 
Shining Path), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization 
that convulsed the country in the 1980s and 1990s at a cost 
of more than 69,000 lives.  SL remnants in the Upper Huallaga 
River Valley (UHV) sought to regroup and replenish their 
ranks following significant setbacks suffered in 2007. 
Separately, the SL organization in the Apurimac and Ene River 
Valley (VRAE) maintained its control over the area and 
opposed Government of Peru efforts to combat it.  Both groups 
continued to engage in drug trafficking, and during the year 
carried out 64 terrorist acts in remote coca-growing areas 
that killed at least 12 police, four civilians, and 15 
members of the military. 
 
Although the Fujimori government nearly eliminated SL in the 
1990s, the organization, now entwined with narcotics 
trafficking, remains a threat.  The two Sendero organizations 
combined were thought to number several hundred armed 
combatants.  While today's SL is shorter on revolutionary 
zeal than in the past, analysts believe leaders continue to 
use Maoist philosophy to justify their illicit activities. 
 
Involvement in drug production and trafficking provided SL 
with funding to conduct operations, allowing it to improve 
relations with local communities in remote areas and to 
recruit new members.  While SL in the UHV worked during the 
year to recuperate from losses suffered in 2007, insufficient 
government presence in the more remote VRAE allowed the 
organization there to continue operating. 
 
VRAE: Significant events in 2008 
--------------------------------- 
 
On March 5, five armed attackers killed two Peruvian National 
Police (PNP) officers near the town of Chanchamayo in Junin 
department. 
 
On March 23, an estimated 30 Sendero members ambushed an 
anti-drug police unit near Quinua in Ayacucho department, 
killing one. 
 
On April 30, SL attackers killed two civilians who were 
acting as guides for military personnel, near the town of 
Ancoin in Ayacucho department. 
 
On June 27, Sendero members attacked troops on a 
counternarcotics operation near Sivia in Ayacucho department, 
killing one. 
 
On October 9, in northern Huancavelica department, SL 
triggered a remotely activated bomb underneath a Peruvian 
Army truck returning soldiers to a nearby base.  The 
attackers then opened fire from both sides of the road, 
killing 14 soldiers and 2 civilians.  Sixteen others were 
wounded, three of them critically. It was the deadliest 
Sendero attack since the 1992 capture of Sendero founder 
Abimael Guzman. 
 
On November 16, an SL ambush killed three PNP officers in the 
town of Huanta in northern Ayacucho. 
 
In late August,the Army began an offensive called "Operation 
Excellence," aimed at taking control of the Vizcatan region 
in northern Ayacucho department. While there were unconfirmed 
reports of SL casualties, the military suffered losses in a 
number of SL attacks in response to the offensive. 
 
Implementation of the Garcia government's "Plan VRAE," which 
called for 2,000 troops and 19 anti-terrorism bases operated 
under a central command is still evolving. Plans for new 
health, education, and infrastructure investment in these 
isolated communities where the state lacks presence were not 
implemented, although new Prime Minister Yehude Simon led a 
full cabinet delegation to the VRAE in November to evaluate 
the situation. 
 
UHV: Significant events in 2008 
------------------------------- 
 
During the period June 2007 to November 2008 the "Huallaga 
Police Front" (a an initiateve begun in 2006 under 
then-President Toledo) 
prosecuted a counterterrorism campaign 
in the UHV and captured more than 100 alleged SL members, 
including one national-level leader; seized dozens of 
weapons, explosives and ammunition; destroyed 27 SL camps; 
and broke up an urban cell that served as an intelligence 
link. 
 
On October 14, suspected Sendero elements attacked a PNP 
vehicle traveling on the highway north of Tingo Maria in 
Huanuco department, firing on it from both sides of the road. 
Two of the five officers inside were injured, one of whom 
later died. 
 
On November 26, Suspected Sendero attackers ambushed a PNP 
convoy on the highway some 20 kilometers north of Tingo Maria 
in Huanuco department , killing five police and wounding four 
others. 
 
Other Information 
----------------- 
 
Government efforts to improve interagency cooperation, 
especially in intelligence, and to strengthen prosecutorial 
capacity were somewhat successful. Police units specializing 
in counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics conducted some 
joint operations with the Peruvian Army in the UHV. 
 
President Garcia continued reauthorizing a 60-day state of 
emergency in parts of Peru's five departments where SL 
operates, suspending some civil liberties, and giving the 
armed forces additional authority to maintain public order. 
There was no movement on President Garcia's 2006 proposal 
calling for the death penalty for those convicted of acts of 
terrorism. 
 
The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) has not 
conducted terrorist activities since the December 1996 
hostage-taking at the Japanese Ambassador's residence in 
Lima.  Efforts to reconstitute an organizational structure 
were not in evidence in 2008, though former MRTA members were 
working to establish a political party called the Free 
Fatherland Movement ("Movimiento Patria Libre") to compete in 
future elections. 
 
There was no evidence that foreign terrorists were using Peru 
as a safe haven. 
 
SL founder and leader Abimael Guzman and key accomplices 
remained in prison serving life sentences on charges stemming 
from crimes committed during the 1980s and 1990s. 
 
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continued 
to use remote areas along the Colombian/Peruvian border for 
rest and to make arms purchases.  Experts believed the FARC 
continued to fund coca cultivation and cocaine production 
among the Peruvian population in border areas. 
 
End of Peru report. 
McKinley