When it first launched its "people's war" in 1980, the Shining Path's goal was to overthrow the government through guerrilla warfare and replace it with a New ...See more

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The conflict's main phase began on 17 May 1980 and ended in December 2000. From 1982 to 1997 the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) waged its own ...See more

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Peru experienced violent internal conflict between 1980-2000 that resulted in the death and disappearance of about 69,000 people, as well as 600,000 people ...See more

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The Peruvian Guerrilla War, primarily marked by the actions of the Shining Path, began in the early 1980s as a Maoist revolutionary movement aimed at ...See more

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The Shining Path began its revolutionary campaign in remote areas of the Andes (the group's first act of violence occurred on May 17, 1980, near ...See more

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Nearly 70,000 people died in the Peruvian Civil War that lasted from 1980 until the late 1990s.23. Such a vicious conflict has numerous costs that both the ...See more12 pages

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Peru confronted a horrific human rights debacle from 1980 to 1992, when the country was immersed in an “internal armed conflict” with the Maoist guerrilla group ...See more

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On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and ...See more

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May 17, 1980, marked the start of a decades-long “people's war” conducted against the government of Peru by Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, a Maoist ...See more

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A bloody attempt at revolution by the Shining Path, a Maoist rebel group that would terrorize Peru for the next decade and into the 1990s.See more

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