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Beginning on March 17, 1980, the Shining Path held a series of clandestine meetings in Ayacucho, known as the Central Committee's second plenary. It formed a "Revolutionary Directorate" that was political and military in nature and ordered its militias to transfer to strategic areas in the provinces to start the "armed struggle", despite the revisionism instituted in China by Deng Xiaoping and its economic success since 1978. The group also held its "First Military School", where members were instructed in military tactics and the use of weapons. They also engaged in "Criticism and Self-criticism", a Maoist practice intended to purge bad habits and avoid the repetition of mistakes. During the existence of the First Military School, members of the Central Committee came under heavy criticism. Guzmán did not, and he emerged from the First Military School as the clear leader of the Shining Path. In 1992, Guzmán and other leaders of the Shining Path received life imprisonment sentences for their role in the [[Lucanamarca Massacre]], among other charges.

Shining Path allied itself with Colombian Marxist group [[FARC]] during the last two decades of the [[Cold War]].

In 1991, President [[Alberto Fujimori]] issued a law that gave the ''rondas'' a legal status, and from that time they were officially called ''Comités de auto defensa'' ("Committees of Self Defence").They were officially armed, usually with 12-gauge shotguns, and trained by 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.

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 Beginning on March 17, 1980, the Shining Path held a series of clandestine meetings in Ayacucho, known as the Central Committee's second plenary. It formed a "Revolutionary Directorate" that was political and military in nature and ordered its militias to transfer to strategic areas in the provinces to start the "armed struggle", despite the revisionism instituted in China by Deng Xiaoping and its economic success since 1978. The group also held its "First Military School", where members were instructed in military tactics and the use of weapons. They also engaged in "Criticism and Self-criticism", a Maoist practice intended to purge bad habits and avoid the repetition of mistakes. During the existence of the First Military School, members of the Central Committee came under heavy criticism. Guzmán did not, and he emerged from the First Military School as the clear leader of the Shining Path. In 1992, Guzmán and other leaders of the Shining Path received life imprisonment sentences for their role in the [[Lucanamarca Massacre]], among other charges.
+Shining Path allied itself with Colombian Marxist group [[FARC]] during the last two decades of the [[Cold War]].
 In 1991, President [[Alberto Fujimori]] issued a law that gave the ''rondas'' a legal status, and from that time they were officially called ''Comités de auto defensa'' ("Committees of Self Defence").They were officially armed, usually with 12-gauge shotguns, and trained by 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.