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The Shining Path has reportedly instituted violence against LGBT people. Between 1989 and 1992, the Shining Path and the MRTA allegedly killed up to 500 "non-heterosexual" people. According to one woman who was kidnapped by the Shining Path in 1981, a homosexual man's penis was cut into pieces before he was murdered. The Peruvian government did not reveal the name of the victim. The Shining Path defended its actions by saying that LGBT individuals were not killed because of their sexual identity, instead, they were killed because of their "degrading and promiscuous practices" and "the people" requested that they be executed. These reported killings continued throughout the twentieth century.