Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, of SNCC, the Democratic Workers Party of Marlene Dixon, and Z (picking up her mail, she raged against the sloppy editing at Z, to me)so cannot be slammed as a, "red-baiter, " told me back in '88, than the Shining Path had killed lesbians and many cadre of what in Peru was called the "legal left" formations i.e. non-violent electoral and trade union socialists and communists. http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0305/1441.html sources on the Shining Path.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path >...Although the extent of Shining Path atrocities and the reliability of reports remains a matter of controversy, the senderistas have been frequently accused of notably brutal methods of killing and of targeting leadership of other leftist groups for assassination, including "local leaders of political parties, labor unions and peasant organizations, many of whom were anti-Sendero Marxists." A typical report of Shining Path atrocity can be found in The Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1988: "The insurgents hung the women on a wall and hacked them with knives and machetes before slitting their throats, police said." [4] -- Michael Pugliese