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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 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 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]
In February 1964, he married Augusta La Torre, who was instrumental in founding Shining Path. [7] [8] She died under unclear circumstances in 1988. Guzmán and Elena Iparraguirre, a long-time lieutenant of Guzmán's and his lover, have both refused to talk about La Torre's fate since their imprisonments. In the fall of 2006, while in prison ...
Members of the Shining Path (10 P) P. People killed by Shining Path (11 P) Pages in category "Shining Path" ... San Miguel del Ene attack; Shining Trenches of Combat;
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Pages in category "Shining Path attacks" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... 1987 North Korean embassy attack in Lima; 1989 Callao ...
Irene McCormack RSJ (born 21 August 1938 – 21 May 1991), an Australian nun, was a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who worked as a missionary in Peru. She was assassinated in Peru in 1991 by members of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), a Maoist rebel terrorist organisation.