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While rights groups celebrated the fact that the men were sentenced, some of the survivors ... themselves the Shining Path, were especially active in rural regions of Peru. Indigenous villagers ...

The Shining Path and its remnants have been a steady criminal force in Peru for decades, and despite crackdowns by security forces, income from drug production and trafficking keep them afloat. The ...

SEE ALSO: Shining Path Profile Another soldier was killed on March 13 in the same town when a military patrol came under fire from members of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Militarizado ...

At least six people were killed in a clash between remnants of the defunct Shining Path rebel group and a military patrol in a coca-growing valley in central Peru, a Defense Ministry unit reported ...

The bloodbath, which Peru’s official Truth and Reconciliation Report described as “demented”, was revenge for locals rebelling weeks earlier against Shining Path and killing one of its ...

In this photo provided by Peru's Interior Ministry, health workers push the coffin of Abimael Guzman, founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, at a crematorium in Callao ...

Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, whose founder Abimael Guzman's body was cremated on Friday, is listed as a terrorist organization by the Lima government. All but dismantled ...

Peruvian authorities on Thursday said they had decided to cremate the body of Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Shining Path rebel group ... with the body of one of Peru's most reviled figures.

1992 file photo, Abimael Guzman, the founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, shouts inside of a jail cell after being captured in Lima, Peru. The Peruvian government reported ...