Sendero Luminoso Discussion Thread

The M-PCP is a threath only to the cops or troops that are there. Nobody (even on the right) acusses anybody of triying to form an underground political party. So, now their struggle is about blowing up police patrols and protecting the narco routes

Don't know much about these niggas but what if cutting off people fingers for participating in elections had something to do with it?

Source?

What elections? I know a lot of human rights violations from Sendero but not that one
It was probably because of:
1.-The prohibition of the local markets (they favoured autarky)
2.- being in the crossfire (with the rape and theft from the military and the forced marchs from Sendero)
3.- The tortures to the ashaninka people (very important ethnic group in the jungles)
4.-In the beginning, the peasant communities welcomed the justice against thieves, cattle thief, drunks,etc. But with time, the support ended. And what is a popular war without a people supporting it?

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Source?

How do we know if the support ended because of the Shining Path's mistakes, or because of state terrorism and military massacres against sendero-sympathizing pueblos?

A source from the US department, and if you look out, you can find testimonies about it. A little extract from a anthropological research:
The tragic reality of the senderistas fields
The testimonies collected by the CVR and by other authors (Rodriguez, Fabian, Espinosa, Villapolo, Rojas) about the inhumane way of life in the Shining Path fields coincide with those I have collected since 2008.
The lower-ranking senderista commanders were Andean, but many intermediate commanders were natives who behaved with the same cruelty as the "outsiders."
The testimonies affirm that they had no alternative, that they did it to avoid punishment and even death.
Life in the senderistas fields is unprecedented in the country and in Latin America. Permanent hunger was suffered, lived in subhuman conditions, reaching anthropophagy. The CVR has compared these camps to the Nazi concentration camps.
Open warfare: "we have killed each other"
Between 1991 and 1995, the situation of open war completely transformed the lives of the communities that were divided between the "free" communities of the Bajo Tambo, and the communities submitted to the trekking of the Alto Tambo and the Ene River. The struggle against the Enemy senderista It implied "unjust violence" against Andean, but also against relatives and neighbors (as in Guatemala, in Cambodia, in the Former Yugoslavia and in Algeria). The massacre of the Tsiriari Valley, where navy and colonists murdered with machejes 72 people (51 Andean and 21 Nomatsiguenga, 16 children), in August 1993, tragically illustrate this extreme violence. And it can be compared to the massacres in Rwanda.

That is in fact, a very good question. It may be one, it may be another. The official version is: The rondas campesinas and Sendero policies blow Sedero away from the towns in the andes and jungle, because of this, Guzman launched the 2nd phase: From the fields to the cities, attacking Lima, then he fall in the Monterrico flat and the rest is history.But, after more than 25 years of the end of the war(or at least, the great attacks in Lima), the sociologist and historians are putting great effort in aswering it.
I can't tell you what could have happen (I think that it could have been a Democratic Kampuchea situation).

Not really an objective source of information tbh

I don't think Gonzalo would have ordered an evacuation of Lima or do ethnic cleansing, he was a dedicated Maoist first and foremost, first move would have been the New Democracy, followed by collectivization of agriculture and industry