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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 ...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission later estimated that the resulting conflict led to the deaths of some seventy thousand people, approximately half of them at the hands of the Shining Path and a third at the hands of the state. [13] Guzmán's image as a dispassionate murderer became widespread after he moved against the city of Lima.
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 Shining Path remnants are factions derived from the armed group that split off after the peace agreement between the imprisoned Abimael Guzmán and the Peruvian State in 1993. These include the Sendero Luminoso del Alto Huallaga (disbanded), the Mantaro Rojo Base Committee and the Militarized Communist Party of Peru .
Peruvian authorities captured two most-wanted leaders of the "Shining Path" rebel group, accused of coordinating attacks which have left nearly two dozen people dead over the past two years ...
The founder of Shining Path, Abimael Guzmán, was a fervent supporter of Mao Zedong, [3] he even traveled twice to the fledgling People's Republic of China to learn about Maoism and see the development of the so-called Cultural Revolution. [4]
The Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path's reaction to the Peruvian government's use of the military in the conflict was to increase violent warfare in the countryside. Shining Path attacked police officers, soldiers, and civilians that it considered being "class enemies", often using gruesome methods [citation needed] of
Image credits: Francois G. Durand/Getty Images #6 Ian Smith. The 86-year-old actor shared the sobering news of being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer on December 2. Smith, known for his role as ...