Sendero Luminoso and Peruvian Counterinsurgency
Sendero Luminoso first appeared in Peru in May 1980 by burning several ballot boxes and hanging dogs from streetlights. This unusual event signaled the beginning of one of the most violent insurgencies in the Western hemisphere. Abimael Guzmán, the founder of Sendero Luminoso, set out to utterly des...
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LSU
2007
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Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01242007-200500/ |