Shining Path Path snipers killed three police officers in the Ene Apurimac Valley. Shining Path The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (), more commonly known as the Shining Path (), is a communist revolutionary organization in Peru, espousing Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. When it first launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980, its goal was to overthrow the state by guerrilla warfare and replace it with a "New Democracy". The Shining Path believed that by establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat, inducing a cultural revolution, and eventually sparking a world revolution, they could arrive at full communism. Their representatives stated that existing
Communist Party of the Republic of China Communist Party of the Republic of China The Communist Party of the Republic of China () was a socialist party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was officially registered on 31 March 2009 by the Ministry of the Interior, making it the 147th registered political party in the country and the second legally named "communist party" in Taiwan after the Taiwan Communist Party. The party's inaugural meeting was held at the Chung-Shan Building in the Yangmingshan National Park on October 2008 and is led by Lu Yubao as the party's chairman and Chen Tianfu as the General Secretary. The