Peruvian soldiers have rescued almost 40 men, women and children kept prisoner for up to three decades by a Communist rebel group. In an operation lasting nine days that ended on Sunday, the 26 ...

Authorities in Peru say security forces have rescued a record number of women and children from the Shining Path, drawing attention to the insurgent group’s alleged recruitment practices. Peru’s Vice ...

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Eventually 40 percent of Shining Path fighters were women, a figure that, along with the number of women in FARC, in Colombia, represented some of the highest proportions of female participation in ...

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 and following several weeks of poor health ...

The Shining Path nearly drove the government to its knees in the 1990s with car bombings, assassinations and massacres of peasant communities that refused to support them. The group was not well ...

The government has cut its 30 percent target for women leaders in business and politics by 2020 to seven percent. Analysts say this slow progress bodes poorly for the world's third-largest economy.

Many of the rescued children were born in the camp and are the offspring of women raped by the Shining Path members. News. Sam Webb. 09:50, 29 Jul 2015 Updated 20:08, 29 Jul 2015.

Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path guerrilla group in Peru, ... Guzmán Reynoso was born Dec. 3, 1934, in Mollendo, Peru. His father was a merchant who had children with several women.

Peruvian security forces have rescued 13 women and 26 children who they say were being held captive by Shining Path guerrillas in a remote jungle hideaway, some for as long as three decades ...

The Shining Path rebels who terrorized Peru decades ago are back, moving across the jungle-draped slopes near his remote village and recruiting young fighters to their born-again insurgency. IE 11 ...

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