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Security & Strategic Review - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PERU: Humala orders ‘all-out’ offensive against Sendero
President Ollanta Humala has set in motion what his officials are describing as an all-out offensive against the Sendero Luminoso (SL) guerrillas operating in the Valley of the Apurímac and Ene rivers (Vrae). The trigger for his decision was a guerrilla raid in Cusco, in which 36 workers of a pipeline maintenance team were taken hostage, and the attempt to free them cost the government forces five dead, six injured and two disappeared. Preparations for this offensive resettling indigenous communities, ostensibly to safeguard them against becoming ‘collateral damage’.
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