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 India (Maoist) country were affected by "left-wing terrorism", with another 106 districts in ideological influence. It was formed through merger of various communist groups such as CPI (People's War group), Maoist Communist Centre or MCC, CPI (ML) Party Unity. The CPI (Maoist) believes that the Indian state is being "run by a collaboration of imperialists, the comprador bourgeoisie and feudal lords." According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, the two factions of the Party adhered to differing strands of communism prior to their 2004 merger, although "both organisations shared their belief in the 'annihilation of class enemies' and in extreme violence as