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
Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (), or RCWP-CPSU, is a currently unregistered communist party in Russia. It is considered the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001). The RCWP-CPSU is led by Viktor Tyulkin, who was co-chairman with Anatolii Kriuchkov until the latter died in 2005). It publishes a newspaper called "Trudovaja Rossija" (; "Working People's Russia") and the journal "Sovetskij Sojuz" (; "Soviet Union"). The RCWP-CPSU claims to have supported all the biggest occupations and