Sendero Luminoso
n 1: a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a
splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among
the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world;
seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them
with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine
trade; "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000
deaths" [syn: {Shining Path}, {Sendero Luminoso}, {SL}]