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 ...

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.

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 ...

Children were among the 39 slaves rescued from a 'troop-making' Shining Path rebel camp in Peruvian jungle where women were raped and gave birth to future soldiers. Authorities rescued 26 children ...

Survivors say that Shining Path guerrillas surrounded the town and slaughtered men, women, children and the elderly in revenge after locals rejected the rebels and formed a self-defense militia.

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 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 ...

PIURA, Peru — Archbishop José Antonio Eguren Anselmi of Piura called Sunday on the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, to rid his cabinet of people linked to the Shining Path, a communist rebel ...

In South-Central Peru, a little less than 40 years ago, a rebellion was born. The rebels called themselves El Sendero Luminoso, or the Shining Path. It was a Maoist offshoot, a sect filled with and ...