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Leader and founder of Peruvian Shining Path rebel group dies in prison

CNN

Updated 12:43 PM ET, Sat September 11, 2021

(CNN) Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as ‘Sendero Luminoso’ in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country’s National Penitentiary Institute. He was 86.

A Maoist rebel group, Shining Path was active in the 1980s and 1990s, spreading terror in the country through a bombing campaign that targeted buildings and infrastructure such as electricity towers.

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