The World - News from Feb. 2, 1986

In the worst rebel attack this year, Peruvian Maoist guerrillas killed 12 villagers who refused to join their “people’s war,” authorities said. The Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels beheaded many of the bullet-riddled corpses of the Indian peasant vigilantes after accusing them of collaborating with the army in a jungle town near the city of Ayacucho. The military recently has organized self-defense groups armed with spears and knives in 400 villages in the state of Ayacucho.