Shining Path violence is well documented. The Shining Path rejected the concept of human rights; a Shining Path document stated: Shining Path quickly seized control of large areas of Peru. The group had significant support among peasant communities and it had the support of some slum dwellers in the capital and elsewhere. The Shining Path's Maoism probably did not have the support of many city dwellers. According to opinion polls, only 15% of the population considered subversion to be justifiable in June 1988, while only 17% considered it justifiable in 1991. In June 1991, "the total sample disapproved of the Shining Path
Communist Party of Vietnam The other faction of Thanh Niên, based in the central and southern administrative districts of the country, renamed themselves the Communist Party of Annam in late 1929. The two organizations spent the rest of 1929 engaged in polemics against one another in an attempt to gain a position of hegemony over the radical Vietnamese liberation movement. A third Vietnamese Communist Party emerged around this time, called the League of Indochinese Communists (Vietnamese: "Đông Dương Cộng sản Liên Đoàn"), which was not connected with Thanh Niên. The League of Indochinese Communists had its roots in another national liberation group which had