Shining Path the Peruvian Army. According to the government, there were approximately 7,226 "comités de auto defensa" as of 2005; almost 4,000 are located in the central region of Peru, the stronghold of the Shining Path. The Peruvian government also cracked down on the Shining Path in other ways. Military personnel were dispatched to areas dominated by the Shining Path, especially Ayacucho, to fight the rebels. Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Apurimacwere, and Huanuco were declared emergency zones, allowing for some constitutional rights to be suspended in those areas. Initial government efforts to fight the Shining Path were not very effective or promising. Military units
Communist Party (French Section of the Communist International) of the Region of Madagascar 1936 the newspaper "La Nation malgache" and changed its name to "Le Prolétariat malgache", and on February 5, 1937 it was formally relaunched as the organ of PC(SFIC)RM. On January 23, 1937, a national bureau of the party was formed. The party was dissolved in 1938. Communist Party (French Section of the Communist International) of the Region of Madagascar Communist Party (French Section of the Communist International) of the Region of Madagascar () was formally constituted on August 12, 1936 at a meeting at L'Hôtel Glacier in Tananarive. The formal announcement of the formation of the party came after ten