Shining Trenches of Combat
Prison organization in Peru / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shining Trenches of Combat (Spanish: Luminosas Trincheras de Combate) were Peruvian militant groups organized by the communist Shining Path and purposed to form support bases in prisons that held arrested PCP-SL combatants. Although significantly disruptive to the penal infrastructure, the Shining Trenches ultimately collapsed from government intervention and the general decline in the Shining Path.[1]
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Shining Trenches of Combat | |
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Luminosas Trincheras de Combate | |
Founding leader | Abimael Guzmán |
Dates of operation | 1980s–1990s |
Country | Peru |
Allegiance | Shining Path |
Motives | Recruitment, destabilizing Peruvian prisons, gaining political leverage |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism |
Status | Dissolved |
Opponents | Peruvian Armed Forces National Police of Peru |
Designated as a terrorist group by | Peru United States Canada EU Japan |
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