Security & Strategic Review December 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PERU | Former Senderistas seek electoral role. Followers of the jailed former leader of the Sendero Luminoso (SL) guerrillas, Abimael Guzmán, have announced their intention to register their party, the Movimiento por Amnistí­a y Derechos Fundamentales (Movadef), with the electoral authorities with the purpose of taking part in the legislative elections scheduled for April 2011. The party's secretary-general, Manuel Fajardo, who is also one of Guzmán's lawyers, says that the party shares the aims set out by the jailed SL leader after his capture: amnesty for all those imprisoned for having taken part in the insurgency of 1980-2000, 'national reconciliation' and a 'political solution' to the problems that arose from the internal conflict. 'Class struggle', he said, was still a key principle.

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