Abimael guzman biography of christopher

He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism and treason. He developed an ideology of armed struggle stressing the empowerment of the Indigenous people.

Shining path massacre

He was the illegitimate son of a well-off merchant, who had eight children by five different women. In , Guzman attended a cadre training course in China, returning to Lima and taking a leave of absence from his professorship to focus on party activism. This placed him in China during the Cultural Revolution , which made a large impression on him.

He attracted several like-minded young academics committed to bringing about revolution in Peru. In the s, the Peruvian Communist Party had splintered over ideological and personal disputes. He claimed that imperialism ultimately "creates disruption and is unsuccessful, and it will end up in ruins in the next 50 to years". After fighting for the permission to marry with a hunger strike , the couple wed in late August However, he pleaded respect for religious diversity and claimed religion would not be an obstacle for the armed struggle.

The Shining Path movement was at first largely confined to academic circles in Peruvian universities. In the late s, however, the movement developed into a guerrilla group centered around Ayacucho.