Violencia política- guerra del guerrilla
The full name of the Shining Path, 'Sendero Luminoso', is the ‘Communist Party of Peru for the Shining Path of José Carlos Mariategui’. It was first coined by its founder and leader, a philosophy teacher called Abimael Guzman who drew inspiration from Mao Zedong and the 1920s Peruvian political theorist José Carlos Mariategui. Guzman was captured in 1992. It is widely condemned for its brutality and executions, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organisers, popularly elected officials, local civil-activists and the general civilian population. 
In the 1980's it became clear the Shining Path represented a threat to the state, the government declared an "emergency zone" in the Ayacucho area, and granted the military the power to arbitrarily arrest any suspicious person. The military used this power with horrific consequences, detaining innocent people and at times subjecting them to torture, rape and execution. In several massacres, the military wiped out entire villages. Military personnel took to wearing black ski-masks to hide their identity as they committed these crimes.
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