1.   Among the civilian victims have been members of peasant communities and rural cooperatives who refused to join or support Sendero Luminoso.

2.   It encouraged the incorporation of the peasant community into the wider society, because it operated through the Market.

3.   Most of the victims have come from towns and isolated peasant communities in remote rural areas.

4.   Critics stated that such measures encouraged further guerrilla reprisals against peasant communities.

5.   At the same time, the Mexican government has cut or eliminated many of the price supports that had long sustained peasant communities.

6.   Mexican human rights workers have criticized the militarization of peasant communities throughout the country and of police forces in Mexico City.

7.   The report said marijuana and opium poppy cultivation is spurred by poverty as well as drug promoters who intimidate indigenous people and the peasant community.

8.   The rebels said then, however, that before accepting the agreement they had to present it to their supporters in the Indian peasant communities in Chiapas.