Leader and founder of Peruvian Shining Path rebel group dies in prison
Adios, good riddance!
Back in the 80's and 90's this story of the Shining Path and Guzman always interested me. It's totally crazy stuff. They lived in the jungles of Peru.
But, bringing back to today in relationship to the madness of right wing militias and terrorist groups in the US, we're not that far from the same BS that the left wing Shining Path.
Crazytown!
Here's some of the juicy quotes:
Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as 'Sendero Luminoso' in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country's National Penitentiary Institute. He was 86.
Under Guzman's leadership, the group declared war on the Peruvian government in 1980, carrying out bombings and assassination operations, which by official accounts killed more than 30,000 Peruvians during the next 20 years.
Another 30,000 Peruvians died at the hands of the government and paramilitary groups in the fight against the group, a government commission said in 2003.
The group also conducted a number of devastating attacks in Lima. It blew up electrical transmission towers, causing citywide blackouts, bombed factories, and set off explosives near government offices and inside the ruling party's political headquarters.
