Thread:ChineseSocialist/@comment-25847169-20200409163552/@comment-25847169-20200409181757

"According to testimony of Shining Path militants interviewed by the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the twelfth Shining Path detachment in Lima, commanded by "Comrade Daniel" (later identified as Carlos Mora La Madrid in the Commission's records), was responsible for conducting the attack."

you gotta trust me on this one, us peruvians are capable of lying over small things like smoking marijuana or being drug dealers, but i know for a fact that we would never lie about being responsible for a terrorist attack

"Earlier Shining Path attacks that year included the February 15 murder of María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in Villa El Salvador Ward, who was shot at close range then blown up with dynamite. Also, on June 5 a car bomb exploded beside the Frecuencia Latina television station near midnight, killing journalist Alejandro Perez."

shining path has done these 2 actions, fujimori's spies going "let's fake an attack to make guzman look bad!" is highly unlikely to have happened seeing how they always cracked down on suspicious terrorists but never had plans to stage bombings to make them look bad, atleast that's what i know

guzman was actually not that known but he left an impact on peruvian history, the main era of shining path's guerilla armies were around the mid 80s to the mid 90s, a bit after the mrta was disbanded, after the tarata attacks some big countries noticed and decided to support peru, the rest just didn't say anything

"The original plan was to set off explosives in front of that bank at 9:20 pm, but the establishment did not allow them to park in the place agreed.[5]  They therefore decided to leave their vehicle at the next intersection (which was Tarata Street) and allow it to drift forward until it exploded.[5]  Once in the street, the driver slowed down and abandoned the truck."

it is possible that the plan was revealed by the testimonies of shining path militants, though i am not sure but it has the biggest chance to be the truth

about the dictators after velasco, i'm just gonna say after 1980 and before 2000, weren't really dictators other than fujimori, who was actually a dictator

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez was the successor of Velasco, the same government, a military junta, he gained it through a coup d'etat though

Fernando Belaúnde Terry (who is probably my favorite president other than Vizcarra) got in through direct elections and the Belaunde government was never a dictatorship, his political party was center-left back then, though i am not sure if it was during his presidency or before his presidency (now it's center and a bit center-right), his political party, i believe, supported human rights, the ideologies of his party are Progressivism, Reformism, Humanism and Civic nationalism (though it is no longer Progressivist and Reformist)

shining path guerilla army (shining path itself was created in the late 1960s was formed during belaunde's presidency but it began to become popular and in 1980 already had 520 militants, that's just huge for a guerilla army just recently founded

people tend to say that he was the one who started the financial crisis in Peru, though it was actually alan garcia, which i'll get into now

Alan Garcia, (who i believe was a socialist or social democrat, forgot) was the president that caused the economic crisis in the mid 80s, his politcal party was the APRA, i don't think there is really much to say about him other than the little switching of currencies led into many events leading to the economic crisis (which Fujimori had to fix, basically clean the mess that was done), making families poor and that was the final straw for shining path, which was actually getting the help of the FARC and some villagers in some occassions until 1983, though the alliance with FARC lasted until 2017, surprising i'd say

so basically at this point the shining path was fed up with the government's shit so they started murdering some people and the government was cracking on them and that's when the term "conflict" became a reality in all of peru, it was the government vs the shining path, it is obvious that the true war had started in 1985, at one point (between 1985 and 1989) they controlled the capital of peru, lima and had even reached the forest areas, which was REALLY and VERY far away from their origin department (basically state), they almost reached my father's department and luckily they didn't, who knows where i would be right now?

enough talk, fujimori came and fixed the crisis slowly and decided to crack on the shining path guerillas even harder, the shining path knew this was their biggest enemy yet, they had nothing left so they decided that there was no hope other than to kill civilians and not just people targeted by them, thus they began to become a terrorist organization

then tarata happened and you know how that turned out, fujimori freaked out, decided to crack down harder and at the end of the year they had gotten guzman and put him into jail

not only that but fujimori had done a self-coup and became a dictator and thought that kill suspected communists was a good idea and completely became a bit of an evil guy

after guzman's imprisonment, shining path guerillas began to decay in activity, their other enemy, the mrta, had just been founded, tried to continue but failed and was disbanded in 1997, there was really no hope for shining path

in 2000 the shining path decided to ally with drug carttels and at the end of 2000 fujimori decided to escape to japan

no one cares about shining path nowadays really, just a bit clashes here and there but for me, shining path is well, dead, they're technically still alive

i don't think there is anything i can say right now but i hope this reply was epic, if there's anything i got wrong please tell me