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Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso was born on 3 December 1934 in Mollendo, [4] a port town in the province of Islay, in the region of Arequipa, about 1,000 km (620 mi) south of Lima. He was the illegitimate son of a well-off merchant, who had eight children by five different women.
Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health ...
Abimael's soldiers began attacks on Ayacucho and Cangallo-Fajardo. The attack was planned as follows: Strike one: the Shining Path prisoners mutiny. Strike two: the criminal assault by a squadron of five armed men protected by snipers, located on Wonderland Road, Abimael Guzman indicated the houses where they should locate the snipers.
The cult of personality around Abimael Guzmán was promoted by the Shining Path, reaching the level of fanaticism. [1] Described as a "messianic leader", the capture of Guzman directly led to the Shining Path's collapse. [18] [19] Upon his death a national debate ensued that led to the cremation of his remains. [20]
The common name of this group, the Shining Path, distinguishes it from several other Peruvian communist parties with similar names (see Communism in Peru).The name is derived from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, the founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party (from which the rest of communist parties split; now commonly known as the "PCP-Unidad") in the 1920s: "El Marxismo-Leninismo ...
The organization also led protests against the 1992 capture of Abimael Guzmán, creating the International Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Abimael Guzman to defend his life from possible execution after he was convicted for committing terrorism. [5] [6] [7]
The Operation Victoria (Spanish: Operación Victoria), popularly known as "The Capture of the Century" (Spanish: La Captura del Siglo) [1] [2] or "The capture of Abimael Guzmán" (Spanish: La Captura de Abimael Guzmán), was an operation developed by the Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) on September 12, 1992 in which the leader of Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzmán, was captured.
Ultimately, the Shining Path's war against the Peruvian state faltered, and Abimael Guzmán and several other high-ranking Shining Path members were captured in Lima in 1992. On 10 September 2002, Abimael Guzmán told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission "We, doctors, reiterate that we will not avoid our responsibility [for the Lucanamarca ...