doors, and sentenced to life imprisonment following two months after the incident of the worst atrocities, which included the killing of 69 villagers in 1983, and a van bombing that killed about 20 people in Lima in July 1992.
When Guzman left the scene, the Shining Path saw it's memberships dwindle and by 1994, about 6000 guerrillas had surrendered under a government amnesty program.Here are some key points to what happened afterwards with the Shining Path.
>Mid 1990s- guerrilla leader Oscar Ramirez Durand attempted to spearhead a resurgence of the movement.
>1999-Mr.Ramirez was in turn captured now among Guzman and other Shining Path leaders
>2002- The Car bomb in Lima, just before former U.S president, George W. Bush's visit ; killing 9 and injuring 30 people. This attack was blamed on The Shining Path
Although the organization's numbers had lessened by 2003, a militant faction of the Shining Path called Proseguir (or "Onward") continued to be active and the government claims the Proseguir is operating in alliance with drug traffickers . The faction is believed to consist of three companies known as the Pangoa(the north), Pucuta(the centre) and Vizcatan(the southThis would basically be called the resurgence of The Shining Path which have new commanders by the names of,Comrade Artemio and Comrade Jose'.
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