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The Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), self-named the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista del Perú, abbr. PCP), is a far-left political party and guerrilla group in Peru, following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought.
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.
The MPCP originated in the 1990s as Sendero Luminoso-Proseguir (Shining Path-Onward, SL-Proseguir), forming after the capture of Abimael Guzmán. The party is considered the direct successor to the Shining Path by the government of Peru and other international entities [ citation needed ] , because most of its members splintered from the ...
The terrorist group Sendero Luminoso was accused of being responsible for the attack, [3] or alternatively, a group of sympathizers. [6] Shining Path's official position on the USSR was known to be negative, stating that the socialist state was an "enemy" of its cause of struggle.
The victims were reportedly partygoers associated with the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso). Nevertheless, judicial authorities found that they were not terrorists. [1] The massacre came to symbolize the widespread human rights abuses that occurred during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori.
The Tarata bombing, known also as the Miraflores bombing or Lima bombing, was a terrorist attack carried out in Tarata Street, located in Miraflores District of Lima, Peru, on 16 July 1992, by the leftist Shining Path terrorist group.
Edith Lagos was a Peruvian Guerrilla fighter who was a member of the party Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), one of the multiple Communist Parties of Peru. Lagos was a prominent promoter of the group's agenda.