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In this country, impoverished citizens were targeted by a genocidal forced sterilization initiative called the National Population Program. Retaliatory (-5[1])killings of peasants by one group in this country 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 (10[1])Altos massacre was carried out by this country’s Grupo Colina death squad. The Marxist-Leninist group MRTA was named (10[1])for an 18th-century (10[1])indigenous rebel leader in this modern-day country, (10[1]-5[1])Tupac Amaru. In 1980, 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 1990s by Alberto Fujimori. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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