TITLE

'WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?': NEW TAKES ON AN OLD QUERY

PUB. DATE

January 2002

SOURCE

NACLA Report on the Americas;Jan2002, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p7

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Comments on Ernesto de la Jara's article on anti-terrorism in Peru. Terrorism committed by the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement; Parallelism between Peruvian anti-terrorism and the war on terrorism in the United States; Social causes of terrorism.

ACCESSION #

6002067

Tags: COUNTERTERRORISM;  SENDERO Luminoso (Guerrilla group);  PERU -- Social conditions;  TUPAC Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Organization)

 

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