The Shining Path controversies that spurred Peru’s gov’t shake-up
Al Jazeera
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo changed his cabinet amid accusations some ministers sympathised with the Maoist rebel group.
Lima, Peru – Ignacio Tacas was 13 when he learned how his family was massacred. The details reached him, piece by piece, over an entire month of fragmentary television and newspaper reports.
Members of the Shining Path killed his father, three sisters and brother – aged four to nine – maternal grandparents and two uncles in their remote Andean village, Lucanamarca, on April 3, 1983, while he studied at a state school on Peru’s coast.
They were among 69 people, including 18 children, slaughtered in what remains the most infamous of the atrocities committed by the Maoist hardline group. Many of the victims were killed with blades and blunt instruments.
