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In this country, impoverished citizens were targeted by a genocidal forced sterilization initiative called the National Population Program. (-5[1])Retaliatory killings of peasants by one group in this country responded to attacks from the military-trained rondos campesinos. 14 (10[1])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 (10[1])country’s Grupo Colina death squad. (10[1])The Marxist-Leninist (10[1])group (10[1])MRTA was named for an 18th-century indigenous rebel leader in this modern-day (10[1])country, Tupac Amaru. (10[1])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[1])

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