Bad news.

The report released by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in August cited the Catholic Church for failing to act against the violence in which 69,000 people disappeared or were killed between 1980-2000.

Particularly in rural Ayacucho Ayacucho (äyäk

`chō), city (1993 pop. 105,918), capital of Ayacucho dept., S central Peru. , where fighting between Shining Path Shining Path, Span. Sendero Luminoso, Peruvian Communist guerrilla force, officially the Communist party of Peru. Founded in 1970 by Abimael Guzmán Reynoso as an orthodox Marxist-Leninist offshoot of the Peruvian Communist party, the Shining Path turned guerrillas List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region: Afghanistan

Abdul Haq
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Ismail Khan
Muhammad Omer
Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida leader
Ahmed Shah Massoud
Jalaluddin Haqqani

Albania

Skanderbeg

and government security forces was fiercest, the report accuses the church of "remaining silent about the Peruvian military's use of brutal counterinsurgency coun·ter·in·sur·gen·cy
n.
Political and military strategy or action intended to oppose and forcefully suppress insurgency.

coun tactics that fell hardest on civilians," the Washington Post reports.

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima criticized the report in a September sermon. "I don't accept it because it is not the truth."

A majority of Peruvians support the commission's work.

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Title Annotation:	News--Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission cites Catholic Church for failing to act against violence
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Date:	Nov 1, 2003
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