Corpse of Peru’s Deadliest Terror Leader Withheld From Widow

  • Justice Minister wants body cremated and ‘thrown in the sea’
  • Abimael Guzman founded the bloodthirsty Shining Path movement
Abimael Guzman enters a courtroom at the Naval Base in Callao, Peru, in 2017.Photographer: Martin Mejia/AP Photo
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Peruvian authorities denied a request from the widow of the nation’s most feared terrorist, Abimael Guzman, to return his corpse to her for burial.

Vladimir Farfan, the public prosecutor who took the decision, cited a threat to “public order” in justifying his decision, the Attorney General’s office said Wednesday.