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After years in decline, the Maoist "Shining Path" movement has made a startling comeback in Peru.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
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June 30, 2008
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After years in decline, the Maoist "Shining Path" movement has made a startling comeback in Peru. The 1992 capture of its leader, an ex-philosophy professor named Abimael Guzman, led to a steep decline in the group, which numbered up to 10,000 at its peak and murdered tens of thousands in its pursuit of a Communist utopia. Recently, the group abandoned its decision to shun the drug trade. Its ...
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Peru's Shining Path Maoists: Leaderless, Decimated, Divided; Fujimori Vow...
The Washington Post;
November 21, 1994 ;
Gabriel Escobar;
787 words
......attacks on state offices, the Shining Path movement appears to be reaching the...rebellion, these members of the Shining Path can no longer destabilize...has promised to defeat the Shining Path by 1995, a goal that has...Arbulu, a specialist on the Shining Path ...
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Peruvians still fear Shining Path Tupac Amaru gains notice with hostages,...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
February 2, 1997 ;
GLENN GARVIN;
722 words
......south of Lima. "It has been personified by Shining Path. And I fear Shining Path is preparing a very grave act of terrorism...political analysts familiar with the history of Shining Path, the larger, richer, more violent and, until...
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Peru Police Report Capture Of `Shining Path' Leader
The Washington Post;
September 13, 1992 ;
379 words
......who founded the Maoist Shining Path movement and directed its 12-year...Chinese government. The Shining Path followed the tactics of...other coastal cities. The Shining Path has been especially active...forces," Guzman once said. Shining Path's increasing ...
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Peru Fears Reemergence of Violent Rebels; Shining Path Movement Aided by...
The Washington Post;
December 10, 2001 ;
Scott Wilson;
787 words
......countryside. A column of rebels from the Shining Path, a radical Maoist movement that terrorized...surge in guerrilla activity, including a Shining Path ambush in August about 200 miles south...killed. In the last few months, the Shining Path has also begun operations in Peru's...
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Rebel group's presence growing near Peru's capital: The mayor of a Lima...
The Christian Science Monitor;
April 12, 2002 ;
787 words
......worried that supporters of the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas are trying to use his turf...people participating politically with pro-Shining Path rhetoric, says Pumar. They want to take...antigovernment comments that sound like the Shining Path of old. Pumar has begun coordinating...
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Shining Path Nears Dead End; Peru's Rebels Hobbled, and Peace Faction Now...
The Washington Post;
June 11, 1994 ;
Corinne Schmidt-Lynch;
787 words
...Fourteen years ago, Shining Path guerrillas bent on installing a...another continuing to fight. "The Shining Path has been strategically defeated...months later, the famously elusive Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman was captured...
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Shining Path Documents, Rebels Seized; Shadowy Guerrilla Leader Used Safe...
The Washington Post;
June 9, 1990 ;
Eugene Robinson;
787 words
......found the apparent headquarters of the Shining Path, the Maoist guerrilla group whose 10-ye...with finely worked handicrafts honoring Shining Path exploits and a bedroom apparently used...the most telling blow struck against Shining Path since the guerrillas began their armed...
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As Shining Path Dims, Peru's Prospects Brighten
The Washington Post;
August 24, 1993 ;
Don Podesta;
787 words
...Nearly a year after the capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman and several of...elsewhere around Peru agreed on one point: Shining Path is nowhere near the threat that it was...Guzman's capture last September. "The Shining Path, here in Ayacucho, has been taken apart...
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SHINING PATH KILLS 6 IN RAID.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
December 26, 1996 ;
102 words
......Peru -- Leftist guerrillas of the Shining Path movement killed six people, including five...village, authorities said today. The Shining Path is the larger and more violent of...ambassador's residence in Lima. About 40 Shining Path rebels entered the village of Abra...
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A blow to Shining Path Guzman's arrest shatters an image
The Boston Globe;
September 20, 1992 ;
Philip Bennett, Globe Staff;
787 words
......is writing a book about the war with Shining Path in highland communities in the Peruvian...years as the invisible father of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, Guzman seemed even...of Guzman and other senior leaders of Shining Path ended a period in which the Maoist rebels...
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Future dims for Peru's Shining Path guerrillas.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
June 14, 2001 ;
Hall, Kevin G.;
787 words
...LIMA, Peru _ The leadership of the Shining Path is behind bars and public sympathy for...height in the 1980s and early 1990s, the Shining Path was one of the most violent rebel movements...currently serving a life sentence. But the Shining Path never completely disappeared, and might...
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Rebels bring urban warfare to Lima // Terror attacks by Shining Path
Chicago Sun-Times;
May 31, 1987 ;
Monte Hayes;
755 words
......tension prevailing in Lima since the Shining Path guerrilla movement began an urban military...strategy that has officials alarmed, the Shining Path, which once scorned other leftist groups...former professor of philosophy, the Shining Path began its Maoist insurgency May 17...
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The Shining Path comes back: Peru.(the Maoist guerrillas of Peru have...
The Economist (US);
August 17, 1996 ;
574 words
......attacks by the Maoist guerrillas of the Shining Path. Peruvians had believed them all but...ideological line. The question now is whether Shining Path can re-create its reign of terror-for...areas. After Mr Guzman was captured, the Shining Path's organisation collapsed and ...
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Peru relives a nightmare as rebels reappear Shining Path / Fatal ambush
International Herald Tribune;
July 24, 2003 ;
Juan Forero;
787 words
......one, for two young infantrymen killed by Shining Path guerrillas on July 10. But the Shining Path, a fanatical rebel group believed to have...more than a decade ago. ''We had thought Shining Path was completely gone,'' Raul Chamorro...
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Shining Path.(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);
July 4, 1992 ;
365 words
...SHINING PATH. By Simon Strong. Harper Collins; 274...communism in Europe has reached the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru. It does not matter...deserved to collapse. As they see it, Shining Path is different. Its war against the government...
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