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In this country, impoverished citizens were targeted by a genocidal forced sterilization initiative called the National Population Program. Retaliatory killings of peasants by one group in this country responded (10[1])to attacks from the military-trained rondos campesinos. (-5[1])14 members of a militant group in this country were killed during a 1996 embassy hostage crisis. The Barrios Altos massacre (10[1])was carried out by this country’s Grupo Colina death squad. The Marxist-Leninist group MRTA was named for an 18th-century indigenous rebel leader in this modern-day 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 (10[1])American country led in the 1990s by Alberto Fujimori. ■END■ (0[1])

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