The Shining Path has been widely condemned for its excessive brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, competing Marxist groups, elected officials and the general public.[2]

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The Shining Path's retaliation to this was one of the worst attacks in the entire conflict, with a group of guerrilla members entering the town and going house by house, killing dozens of villagers, including babies, with guns, hatchets, and axes. This action has come to be known as the Lucanamarca massacre.[39] Additional massacres of civilians by the Shining Path would occur throughout the conflict.[26][40][41]

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American rock band Rage Against the Machine released a music video for their 1993 song "Bombtrack" as a response to the arrest of Abimael Guzman the previous year. The video expresses support for Guzman and the Shining Path, featuring various clips of the organization's activities, as well as showing the band in a cage to mimic Guzman's imprisonment.[145]

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Love that slogan.

[–] Digitalbird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The band is great but sometimes it's sad to see how Morello sells his T-shirts on Instagram. Mostly they're boring shirts (not much effort for the pictures or texts) and selling them so eagerly seems like some pretty capitalist shit.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't need the shirts to exist, but he needs money for food and shelter. Would you rather he book private shows for elites?

[–] Digitalbird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It just seems pretty ironic that first he posts on Instagram (big corporate social media) stuff like fuck the system and on the next post he says that buy my T-shirts! Where are those shirt made? Probably on some cheap factory with bad working conditions. I also think that he gets pretty much money from the gigs etc. So he can manage without selling shirts. But yeah I agree that you have to make money to live in a system you are even if you oppose that system. Maybe there's more nuances than I see. But with a quick look it seems pretty ironic as I said.

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