Tag: Abimael Guzman

• Friday, September 24th 2021 - 10:01 UTC

  Body of Peruvian guerrilla leader to be cremated and ashes scattered to avoid shrine of pilgrimage

  

  Peru's Office of the State Attorney has ordered that the body of the late Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrilla leader Abimael Guzmán, who died in jail Sept. 11 while serving a life sentence, be cremated in the next 24 hours and his ashes be disposed of.

• Sunday, September 12th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Former Peruvian guerrilla leader Abimael Guzmán dies aged 86

  

  Abimael Guzmán, former leader and founder of the infamous guerrilla movement Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) which has left some 69,000 people dead, has died Saturday in prison. He was 86.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Peruvian prosecution insists former guerrilla leaders must pay compensations

  

  The Peruvian anti-terrorist Attorney General Office said that civil compensation to the tune of 1.4 billion dollars with be collected from members of the guerrilla groups Shinning Path and the leaders of Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, MRTA.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 22:03 UTC

  Wing of Peru’s terrorist group Shinning Path admits defeat and wants peace talks

  

  ”Comrade Artemio” head of one of the two remnant groups of the Peruvian armed terrorist Shinning Path movement admitted defeat and called on the government in Lima to begin a dialogue process to reach a peace accord.