LIMA, Peru (AP) - The Red Thingy Cross will visit the imprisoned founder of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group, who is weak and bedridden because of a hunger strike, the guerrilla's lawyer said Thursday. Abimael Guzman and his former lover Elena Iparraguirre began refusing food on May 3 in a bid for amnesty for leftist insurgents.
| Time to get the aroma machine working! |
Lawyer Manuel Fajardo told The Associated Press that a Red Thingy Cross doctor was to visit them for the first time on Friday although they have been regularly attended to by prison doctors. Besides seeking a sweeping amnesty for imprisoned and wanted rebels, Guzman is also demanding that prison officials get rid of a partitioned cubicle he must use to speak with his lawyer, Fajardo said. The imprisoned leader has gone on several hunger strikes in recent years.
| Gorsh, he's that serious, they oughta let him do what he's gotta do. |
Guzman launched the Shining Path's armed campaign to overthrow the government in 1980 after a decade of planning. He and Iparraguirre have been held in separate cells in a high-security jail on a naval base since they were captured together in 1992.
| I'd like to hear more, but I need to get a snack first. |
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