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The Ccano massacre was a mass attack on members of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church (see Pentecostal revival movement in Chile) perpetrated by members of the Shining Path in the village of Ccano in La Mar Province, Peru, killing 32 people. The attack was part of the then-ongoing main phase of the Shining Path insurgency.
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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]
From the convent, McCormack was taken to the town square where 300 people had gathered. Earlier, the Shining Path terrorists had stormed the village, looted homes and terrorised the townspeople. Now, in the glare of spotlights, McCormack and four men were tried in a "kangaroo court" and sentenced to death.
After the setback suffered by the events of El Frontón, the Central Committee of Shining Path commissioned the execution of Vega Llona to an annihilation group commanded by Tania Tineo Suasnábar (Comrade Rosa). Other members of the annihilation group were Teófilo Ayma Sayco (Comrade Tomás), and Cipriano Quilla Carcausto (Comrade Saúl).
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but persisted in fighting, mobilizing and producing in ardent struggles; they transformed the sordid dungeons of the outdated and rotten Peruvian State into luminous trenches of combat.
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]
This was the first massacre committed by the Shining Path against members of a peasant community. At the party's Third National Conference in July 1983, Abimael Guzmán (Shining Path's leader) criticized the massacre as a strategic mistake: “What happened in Lucanamarca should never happen again...That is an expression of bad politics, that’s not how to behave...It’s erroneous to apply ...