Shining Path on the Offensive in Peru, Again
A dozen people are dead in Peru since February amid escalating violence involving the Shining Path guerrilla group.
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A dozen people are dead in Peru since February amid escalating violence involving the Shining Path guerrilla group.
Raul Sifuentes/Getty Images 25 May 2021 Military officials identified the believed-to-be-defunct Marxist terrorist organization Shining Path on Monday as the party responsible for the massacre of 18 people, including at least four children, this weekend in southern Peru. Founded in the 1960s and peaking in terrorist activity in the 1980s, Shining Path is a Maoist, communist organization dedicated to the destruction of the Peruvian state. The government of former President Alberto Fujimori captured the group’s leader, Abimaul Guzmán, in 1992, sentencing him to life in prison and effectively...