Fujimori 's administration was dogged by several insurgent groups , most notably Sendero Luminoso ( Shining Path ) , which carried on a terrorist campaign in the countryside throughout the 1980s and 1990s . He cracked down on the insurgents and was successful in largely quelling them by the late 1990s , but the fight was marred by atrocities committed by both the Peruvian security forces and the insurgents : the Barrios Altos massacre and La Cantuta massacre by Government paramilitary groups , and the bombings of Tarata and Frecuencia Latina by Shining Path . Those examples subsequently came to be seen as symbols of the human rights violations committed during the last years of violence . With the capture of Abimael Guzmán ( known as '' President Gonzalo '' to the Shining Path ) in September 1992 , the Shining Path received a severe blow which practically destroyed the organization
Barrios Altos massacre
Barrios Altos massacre
History of Peru