Shining Path Leader Killed by Police
Peruvian police killed a Shining Path leader during a weekend raid on a rebel stronghold in the country’s central jungle.
Hector Aponte, known as Comrade Clay, headed the Maoist group’s rebel operations in the remote Alto Huallaga region and was killed Sunday in a police assault that lasted several hours, the interior minister said.
The raid followed an attack on police last week in Alto Huallaga that killed two officers. Authorities attributed the attack to remnants of Shining Path, which fought a guerrilla war from 1980 to the mid-1990s aimed at imposing communism in Peru.
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