The World - News from June 11, 1989
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Peruvian troops killed a top field commander of the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrilla group and at least 20 other rebels in two clashes, army spokesmen said. They said Shining Path leader David Orozco Tello, known as Comrade Merino, and 14 other insurgents were killed in a clash in a remote area of the Apurimac region, about 600 miles south of Lima. Press reports have described Orozco as a top Sendero strategist and an associate of the movement’s supreme leader, Abimael Guzman. A separate army patrol killed at least six other rebels in a clash in the Ayacucho region, birthplace of the nine-year-old insurgency.
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