(20 Jan 2014)
Trial of founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement
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Lima - 20 Jan 2014
1. Wide of exterior of Naval Base in El Callao where court hearing for Shining Path leader is taking place
2. Mid reverse view of Abimael Guzman (seated in front row, wearing black glasses), founder and leader of the Shining Path ('Sendero Luminoso' in Spanish) guerrilla movement, seen through court window
3. Wide reverse view of trial, seen through court window
4. Wide of court room, seen through courtroom window
5. Mid of Oscar Ramirez Durand, member of Shining Path, seen through court window
6. Mid of prosecutors sitting in courtroom
7. Mid of Guzman speaking with man sitting next to him
STORYLINE:
On January 20th 2014 the founder of Peru's Shining Path rebels went on trial for a 1992 attack considered one of the worst of the conflict he unleashed.
Abimael Guzman appeared in court at the Callao military prison in Lima after being out of the media's limelight for seven years.
Prosecutors have asked that Guzman and other members of the rebel group be sentenced to a life in prison for the July 1992 attack in Lima, when two car bombs exploded in a residential area, killing 25 people and injuring 155 others.
Guzman was captured nearly two months after the twin bombings.
The 79-year-old is already serving life without parole for a 2006 conviction for multiple crimes.
Outside the courtroom, Guzman's lawyer condemned the trial, saying it was politically motivated.
Guzman has no chance of going free, but his lawyer said at least two of his co-defendants would have been released had new charges not been brought.
He added there was no proof that Guzman or the central committee of the Shining Path ordered the 1992 attack.
On January 24th, Guzman is due to appear in the same courtroom on charges in a separate case stemming from rebels seizing an interprovincial bus in 1984 in Ayacucho state and killing 104 people.
The Maoist-inspired Shining Path waged a bitter struggle between 1980-2000 that claimed some 70-thousand lives, most of them civilians.
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