Edith Lagos
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Edith Lagos Saez was a member of the Shining Path
who was killed by the Peru
vian security forces when she was nineteen years old. Her funeral was attended by thousands of people. The Rodrigo Franco Command
later bombed her tomb.
Shining Path
Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short...
who was killed by the Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian security forces when she was nineteen years old. Her funeral was attended by thousands of people. The Rodrigo Franco Command
Rodrigo Franco Command
The Rodrigo Franco Command was a paramilitary organization that acted as a death squad in Peru from 1985 to 1990. The group was closely aligned with the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance , which governed Peru under Alan García during the years of the Rodrigo Franco Command's existence...
later bombed her tomb.