Share this Story: Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86Article content LIMA — Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison, the government said. Try refreshing your browser, or Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86 Back to video Susana Silva, head of Peru’s prison system, told RPP radio on Saturday that Guzman had been ill in recent months and had been released from a hospital in early August. An estimated 69,000 people, mostly in Peru’s poor interior, were killed between 1980 and 2000 in the internal conflict launched by the Shining Path. Fanning out from Ayacucho, the Shining Path attracted thousands more militants from poor peasant communities and universities. Apparently drunk, he danced and posed for snapshots with supporters in a Shining Path video captured by police in 1990 and shown on television.

Source: National Post September 11, 2021 15:45 UTC