Shining Path originated as a militant Maoist political movement in the 1960s. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission estimates that more than 70,000 people died during fighting that pitted Shining Path and fellow leftist militant group Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement against the government in the 1980s and 1990s. Shining Path formed around an ideological allegiance to the Maoist teachings of the group's founder, Abimael Guzman. Guzman's ideology is frequently called "Gonzalo thought," and its followers consider it as important as the teachings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong. Shining Path's political goals are to stop the exploitation of workers, promote human rights and create a communist state through violent uprising. A previous military campaign against the group conducted by former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resulted in Guzman's arrest in 1992. Since then, his release has been the most important issue for the group's ideologically motivated elements.