Terrorist Movements: Shining Path and the MRTA
This work is organized in four chapters and has as its main objective to present the origin, development, and fall of the two most important terrorist groups that operated in Peru: "Sendero Luminoso" (SL) and the "Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru" (MRTA), which were responsible for the deaths of 26,829 people and economic losses exceeding 26 billion dollars; in an arbitrary and illusory quest to seize power through violent means, using all available methods and all forms of struggle, many of them forbidden by reason and universal humanitarian law, and in violation of Peruvian law.
Referenced in events
- 1985 General Elections
- Car bomb at the Ministry of the Interior
- III MRTA Central Committee
- Penalty Killing
- Opening of MRTA guerrilla front in San Martin
- Third MRTA Central Unity Committee
- Explosion in Tarata Street
- Capture of Miguel Rincón Rincón and Lori Berenson
- MRTA assault on Japanese ambassador's residence