Abimael Guzman, leader of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, rebels who nearly overthrew the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, has died while in prison, the government said. He was She said his health condition worsened in the past two days, without elaborating further, adding Guzman was set to receive more medical attention on Saturday but died in his cell at about am local time GMT. Guzman founded the Shining Path, transforming it from a ragtag band of peasants and radical students into a potent rebel group.
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InSight Crime was delighted to support investigative reporting in the Americas through a workshop with our friends at Connectas, a non-profit journalism initiative that facilitates collaboration…. Thank you for your message. Allies and Enemies At the beginning of the first decade of the s, the Shining Path established links with the Colombian FARC guerrilla group, from whom they learned some war tactics, like the use of rocket launchers to shoot down military airplanes.
Prospects Although the Shining Path has announced a new strategy for seizing power in anticipation of the Bicentennial, it is very unlikely that it manages to do so as it does not have the military or economic strength to do so. Was this content helpful? What are your thoughts? Peruvian law stipulates that the remains of a prisoners should be handed over to his next of kin.
On Sunday, a court in Callao rejected a request filed by Iparraguirre to have her husband's body handed over to a former Shining Path member known as Comrade Bertha, whom she had given power of attorney to act on her behalf.
It is believed Iparraguirre wants her husband's body to be buried. But with the memory of the bloody insurgency he led in the s and s still very raw in Peru, many would prefer to see him cremated and his ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
The turning point came in when the military, which had been ruling Peru for 12 years, allowed democratic elections to be held. The Shining Path not only boycotted the election but actively disrupted it by burning ballot boxes in Ayacucho.
The guerrilla group's aim was to establish a communist state and therefore it was not interested in democratic polls. Instead the group imposed its ruthless rule on the rural areas it seized, killing villagers suspected of siding with the government. It also spread fear through show trials and public executions. The assassinations and car bombings which its members carried out in the following years almost brought the government to its knees.
The government imposed a state of emergency in the highlands and armed local militias known as rondas to fight back. The atrocities committed by the military in its fight against the rebels drove some people, especially in rural areas, to side with the Shining Path. But the Shining Path's brutal enforcement of its rules and the show trials and executions did much to undermine the support of those who may have at first been sympathetic with the group's goals.
One of the deadliest incidents happened in when in and around the area of Santiago de Lucanamarca 69 locals were killed with axes, machetes and guns in retaliation for the earlier killing of a Shining Path commander.
But the atrocities were not limited to rural areas. In , two truck bombs detonated by the Shining Path in Lima's Miraflores district killed 25 and injured more.
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