Inocencia: Shining Path and the Recruitment of Minors, Ayacucho in the 1980s.
This article uses a unique source to examine the role of young people in the Peruvian Maoist group the Shining Path. The Archivo Regional de Ayacucho contains the records of trials from 1980 to 1985 against minors accused of belonging to and supporting the Shining Path. About one-third of the detain...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1031 - 1054 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2022
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