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According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shining Path guerrilla attacks claimed an estimated 12,500 lives during the organization's active phase. [95] On 16 July 1992, the Tarata bombing , in which several car bombs exploded in Miraflores , Lima's wealthiest district, killed over 40 people; the bombings were characterized by one ...
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 ...
This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
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 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 .
Iparraguirre was captured in Lima in 1992 along with her partner, Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán. In 1992, she received a sentence of life imprisonment by a secret military tribunal. [ 2 ] She was awarded a new trial in a civilian court in 2004, but the proceeding ended as a mistrial.
Years before, the Musical Guerrilla Army made tours to perform pro-Shining Path songs. [ 4 ] 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.
People's Aid (Spanish:Socorro Popular, SOPO) was a Peruvian mass organization formed by the insurgent Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path; purposed to provide legal defense to members and associates accused by the state for crimes such as terrorism. It also provided logistical and medical support. [1] [2]