ShiningPath 2016 HIA Renzo Aroni

On February 11, 2016, the UC Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas hosted an international conference on “The Aftermath of the Shining Path: Memory, Violence, and Politics in Peru.”
The conference brought together renowned scholars, archivists, and journalists to discuss the vicious war that stretched from 1980 to 1992 and its aftermath. Led by Abimael Guzmán or Presidente Gonzalo, the Maoist Shining Path began in Ayacucho in the highlands and spread throughout much of the country. Both their tactics as well as the response by the Peruvian military were brutal, resulting in over 70,000 dead and hundreds of thousands forced to flee. Indigenous peasants bore the brunt of this violence and displacement.
Renzo Aroni, a Ph.D. student in history at UC Davis, was a presenter in the session titled "From the Inside and Outside: Testimonies & Autobiographies of Exceptional Lives." Aroni has written on violence and its aftermath in Peru. He has edited "No hay mañana sin ayer. Batallas por la memoria y consolidación democrática en el Perú" and "De Víctimas a Ciudadanos: Memorias de la Violencia Política en Comunidades de la Cuenca del Río Pampas."
For more about the conference, visit lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu....