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Asháninka shelter after an attack perpetrated by Shining Path in 1991
An Asháninka refuge following an attack carried out by Sendero Luminoso in 1991. For more than ten years, the Shining Path members kept a large portion of the Asháninka population in captivity, subjecting them to forced labor, inadequate food, and mandatory indoctrination. Hundreds of native people were massacred and entire communities lost their crops, animals, and homes. Nevertheless, the Asháninka people managed to organize self-defense patrols and resist the control that both Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA sought to impose on them.