Shining Path
Maoist communist party in Peru
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| 2024 | The Peruvian government ordered the dissolution of MOVADEF, citing accusations of advocating terrorism. |
| 2020 | The group was reported to be generating income through selling cigarettes, clothes, candy, and conducting raffles. |
| December 2 2020 | Operation Olimpo concludes with the arrest of 71 alleged Shining Path members, including Alfredo Crespo, secretary general of MOVADEF and Guzmán's former lawyer, in Callao and Lima. |
| 2019 | A new study challenges the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's casualty figures, estimating a total of 48,000 killings and suggesting the Peruvian State was responsible for a larger share of deaths than previously reported. |
| June 2018 | The group formally established the MPCP and distanced itself from Guzmán's original Shining Path, reorganizing as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Peru. |
| March 18 2017 | Shining Path snipers killed three police officers in the Ene Apurimac Valley. |
| 2016 | FUDEPP attempted to participate in the Peruvian general election by collecting 400,000 to 500,000 signatures for the JNE (National Jury of Elections), but was ultimately prevented from participating in the elections. |
| April 9 2016 | The Peruvian government blamed Shining Path remnants for a guerrilla attack that killed eight soldiers and two civilians, occurring on the eve of presidential elections. |
| 2015 | Intelligence operation codenamed Operation Olimpo begins, targeting Shining Path's United Front and People's Guerrilla Army. |
| 2015 | FUDEPP (Front for Unity and Defense of the Peruvian People) was created as a political wing associated with MOVADEF. |
| August 11 2013 | Comrade Alipio, the Shining Path's leader in the Ene-Apurímac Valley, was killed in a battle with government forces in Llochegua. |
| June 7 2013 | Comrade Artemio was convicted of terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering, sentenced to life in prison and fined $183 million. |
| October 7 2012 | Shining Path rebels attacked three helicopters used by an international gas pipeline consortium in the central region of Cusco, with no kidnappings or injuries reported. |
| April 3 2012 | Jaime Arenas Caviedes (alias 'Braulio'), a senior leader in the group's remnants, was captured, leading President Humala to declare the Shining Path unable to operate in the Alto Huallaga Valley. |
| March 3 2012 | Walter Diaz, the lead candidate to succeed Artemio, was captured, further ensuring the disintegration of the Alto Huallaga valley faction. |
| February 12 2012 | Comrade Artemio was found badly wounded after a clash with troops in a remote jungle region of Peru during Operation Crepúsculo, marking the defeat of the Huallaga faction. |
| 2011 | MOVADEF filed an application to become a political party with the National Jury of Elections (JNE), which was subsequently denied. |
| December 2011 | Comrade Artemio declared to international journalists that the guerrilla war against the Peruvian Government was lost, and he hoped to negotiate an amnesty agreement. |
| 2010 | The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos presented a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) detailing child soldier practices by the Shining Path and Peruvian Armed Forces. |
| April 28 2010 | Shining Path rebels ambushed and killed a police officer and two civilians destroying coca plantations in Aucayacu, Huanuco, Peru, using sniper fire from the forest. |
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