On May 17, 1980, the Shining Path (PCP SL) initiated its 'people's war' against the Peruvian state with a series of explosive attacks on public facilities, focusing heavily on Ayacucho. These early actions included the burning of ballot boxes in Chuschi and incendiary bomb attacks in San Martín de Porres. …
In October 1982, members of the PCP SL attempted to establish a Women's School in a Peruvian community. The initiative was met with suspicion by the male community members, leading to a clandestine opposition led by community leaders. The community eventually captured and decided to release six young PCP SL …
After a huge and well-publicized military operation to surround him, the dissident Shining Path leader Oscar Ramírez Durand, Feliciano, who had rejected Abimael Guzmán's peace agreement proposal and kept the people's war initiated in 1980, was captured near the city of Huancayo. Ramirez Durand was the last of the top …