Peru Court Gives Ex-Rebel Leader Life Sentence for Car Bomb

In this photo taken through a window, Abimael Guzman, founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, arrives to court at a military base in Callao, Peru, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Martin Mejia/AP

LIMA, Peru—A Peruvian court convicted and gave a second life sentence to imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman on Sept. 11 for a 1992 car bombing in the capital that killed 25 people and injured 155.

The 83-year-old Guzman is already serving a life sentence for a 1983 massacre in an Andean village. The Maoist-inspired group began its fight against Peru’s government in 1980 but was badly weakened by the 1992 capture of Guzman and many of its other leaders.