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Shining Path poster supporting an electoral boycott. The Shining Path was founded in 1969 by Abimael Guzmán, a former university philosophy professor (his followers referred to him by his nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo), and a group of 11 others. [25] Guzmán was heavily influenced by a trip to China and admired the teachings of Mao Zedong. [26]
The Assault of Ayacucho prison was an incident in the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, also known as Huamanga, on March 2, 1982.A group of 150 armed terrorists, members of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, staged simultaneous assaults on two local police stations before staging an assault on the prison, resulting in the release of 255 inmates.
The Lucanamarca massacre was a mass murder that took place in and around the town of Lucanamarca on 3 April 1983, by Sendero Luminoso rebels. The attack, which claimed the lives of 69 members of indigenous peasant families, was carried out by a local cadre of the Shining Path in reprisal for a lynching death of its local commander.
Shining Path and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) were far-left terrorist organization who had initiated a conflict against the Peruvian state in the 1980s. They exhibited very hostile behaviour towards sectors that they not sympathetic to their ideological positions, especially state officials.
Shining Path poster of the prison at El Frontón. During the internal conflict in Peru, the bloody campaign by the Peruvian Maoist group Shining Path was responsible for the deaths of thousands of inhabitants of the rural regions of Peru.
In the 1960s, the Peruvian Communist Party had splintered over ideological and personal disputes. Guzmán, who had taken a pro-Chinese rather than pro-Soviet line, emerged as the leader of the faction which came to be known as the "Shining Path" (Mariátegui wrote once: "Marxism–Leninism is the shining path of the future").
On May 17, 1980, on the eve of the presidential elections, [4] members of Shining Path (group which then lacked notoriety) forced themselves through the door of the offices of the Electoral Registry that was locked with a stick. One of the hooded members came through the door and pointed his revolver at Florencio Conde Núñez, who was the ...
The origin of the term Shining Trenches comes from a quotation of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán: "Having become prisoners of war, [combatants] never kneeled but persisted in fighting, mobilizing and producing in ardent struggles; they transformed the sordid dungeons of the outdated and rotten Peruvian State into luminous trenches of combat.