In Peru's Andes, Shining Path leader's death stirs buried memories of terror

A street is seen at dusk in the region where Shining Path, the Peruvian guerrilla group whose founder Abimael Guzman recently died, was once active, near Ayacucho, Peru September 13, 2021. Picture taken September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque

ÑUÑUNHUAYCCO, Peru (Reuters) - In Ñuñunhuaycco, a tiny village in the Peruvian Andes, residents recall almost daily a terror that once haunted them every time the sun went down.

Before dusk in the 1980s locals would often run into the hills in case brutal Shining Path militants came through in their long-running battle to topple the Peruvian state and impose their own Maoist brand of communism.