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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.
Shining Path declared that it had reached "strategic equilibrium" and was ready to begin its final assault on the cities of Peru. In 1992, Shining Path set off a powerful bomb in the Miraflores District of Lima in what became known as the Tarata bombing. This was part of a larger bombing campaign to follow suit in Lima.
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.
More than a dozen people were slain in a remote area of central Peru by suspected members of the Shining Path rebel group, just two weeks ahead of the presidential runoff election, authorities ...
During the internal conflict in Peru, the bloody campaign by the Peruvian Maoist group Shining Path was responsible for the deaths of thousands of inhabitants of the rural regions of Peru. The Military of Peru , which had been dispatched to put down the insurgency , was also responsible for the deaths of thousands of Peruvians, as it treated ...
"A new path of arms" was expected to lead Peru towards a transformed society that served its people. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, it has only been sporadically active. Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other ...
Since the end of a vicious civil war in the 1980s and early '90s between the Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and government forces, which left tens of thousands dead, Peru ...