Former Vice President Luis Giampietri, one of the hostages of the Tupac Amaru siege of the Japanese Ambassador's residence in 1997, accused Soberon of being an advocate for the terrorists.
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The Tupac Amaru rebels captured the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima in December 1996, holding 72 hostages for over four months before Peruvian forces stormed the compound, rescuing all but one of the hostages and killing all 14 rebels inside.
More telling was the fact that Ms. Rodriguez Bustamante was also the mother of one of the Tupac Amaru terrorists killed during the rescue mission.
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During her travels, she is believed to have made contact with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, a Marxist rebel group active in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s.
The State Department dropped the Japanese Red Army and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement from its list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Lurking behind these false allegations, once again, was a panoply of left-wing NGOs including APRODEH, the very group that successfully petitioned the European Parliament not to include the Tupac Amaru (MRTA) terrorists on its official list of terrorist groups.
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Most recently, Atlanta hosted the first Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference on Hip-Hop, Education and Expanding the Archival Imagination.
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In this context, it was under Alberto Fujimori that the left was ousted from the political scene and that Peru was successful in defeating the left-wing terrorist groups, Shining Path and the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru.
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Among Mr Fujimori's many enemies were not just Peru's democratic opposition, but the imprisoned leaders of the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrilla movements.
In Peru, the FARC has reached out to the Peruvian Revolutionary Movement, Tupac Amaru (MRTA).
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Peru's Tupac Amaru guerrillas , still holding 72 hostages in the Japanese embassy in Lima, rejected an offer of asylum in Cuba and stuck by their demand for the release of jailed comrades.
Tupac Amaru guerrillas became notorious for taking more than 70 people hostage in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima in 1996 and holding them for 126 days.
This economic turbulence exacerbated social tensions in Peru and contributed in part to the escalation in violence of the terrorist groups: Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA).
His first big clash with Mr Fujimori came when the prime minister proposed a pardon for Lori Berenson, a young American sentenced to prison in 1996 on the charge that she admittedly a sympathiser was a Tupac Amaru terrorist.
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