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

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