People of the Shining Path

People of the Shining Path Documentary on the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista de Per) called the "Shining Path" (Sendero Luminoso) by the media. Re-released on VHS by: The Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru http://www.csrp.org Ripped from VHS to DVD Video_TS (960.8 MB) 'A "must see" video Documentary of the revolution in Peru' 'For the first time a television crew has brought out footage and interviews from base areas of the revolution in Peru, where indigenous communities in the Andes are governed by People's Committees. The video shows interviews and scenes from Lima's Canto Grande prison filmed just a month before government forces unleashed a vicious attack that killed over 40 political prisoners. Peasants in the countryside and workers in Lima's shantytowns explain the unjust and harsh conditions, and guerillas tell their own story of the march toward nationawide seizure of power. the documentary also gets into the U.S. military's role in Peru. This relatively honest and sympathetic view of the revolution was shown once on British TV in 199(1/2?). In the U.S. it was heavily censored and twisted to become an attack on the revolution before it was allowed to air.'