Murder of Abelardo Ludeña Luque
On May 17, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated engineer Abelardo Ludeña Luque, who was a militant of Izquierda Unida (IU) and a professor at the National University of Engineering (UNI). This selective assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating political and social leaders who opposed their revolutionary project. …