Definition of Sendero Luminoso

1. Noun. A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade. "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"

Exact synonyms: Shining Path, Sl
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Peru, Republic Of Peru

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sendero Luminoso

Semliki forest virus
Semnani
Semnopithecus entellus
Semon's law
Semon-Hering theory
Sempatch
Semper Gumbi
Semper Gumby
Semple vaccine
Sen
Sen.
Senate
Senatical
Sendai
Sendai virus
Sendero Luminoso (current term)
Senderowitz
Senear-Usher disease
Senear-Usher syndrome
Seneca
Seneca snakeroot
Senecan
Senecas
Senecio aureus
Senecio bigelovii
Senecio cineraria
Senecio cruentus
Senecio doublasii
Senecio glabellus
Senecio jacobaea

Literary usage of Sendero Luminoso

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Into the Quagmire: Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Peru by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Americas Watch Committee (U.S. (1991)
"Both Sendero Luminoso and the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) have ... A. Sendero Luminoso Though highly pragmatic in tactical matters, ..."

2. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"Based on an "Inca" authoritarianism, Sendero Luminoso dogmatically applies Maoist principles of "protracted people's war," trying to besiege the cities from ..."

3. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"During the country's period of internal conflict from 1980 to 1995, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) terrorist group targeted evangelical churches in ..."

4. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition by James K. Mitchell (1999)
"... marked by numerous human rights violations against the peasantry as government forces attempted to combat the growing effectiveness of Sendero Luminoso. ..."

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