[secret garden]

Mark? The answer is no.

[zarf]

What a waste of a life. Bright girl, great future...for what?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

From the late 1980s to the 1990s, leftist terrorist groups, the most prominent being the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, terrorized the Andean nation. Tens of thousands of Peruvians died. When Alberto Fujimori was elected president in 1992, he pledged to end the violence - for better or for worse.

In 1995, Lori Berenson, then 26, was arrested and tried by a secret military court, complete with hooded judges. She had been living in Peru and was renting a house in the nation's capital with members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, as it is known in Spanish. She said she was unaware of their political activities.

Even I knew about the Peruvian Shining Path, and I have never even been there.

Lori will have to think of a better lie.

[boxsmith13]

she should rot. she was a terrorist