Princeton's WordNet

1. Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL(noun)

   a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

   "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"