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In this country, impoverished citizens were targeted by a genocidal forced sterilization (-5[1])initiative called the National Population Program. Retaliatory killings of peasants by one group in this country responded to attacks from the military-trained rondos campesinos. 14 members (10[1])of a militant group in this country were killed during a 1996 (10[1])embassy hostage (10[1])crisis. The Barrios Altos (10[1])massacre was carried out by this country’s Grupo Colina death squad. The Marxist-Leninist group MRTA (-5[1])was named for an 18th-century indigenous rebel leader in this modern-day country, Tupac Amaru. In 1980, a “People’s War” in this country was started by the Abimael Guzman-led (-5[2])Maoist insurgency group Shining Path. (10[1])For 10 points, name this South American country led in the 1990s by Alberto Fujimori. (10[3])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Peru [or Republic of Peru or República del Perú]
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