The La Cantuta massacre, in which supposed members of Shining Path—a university professor and nine students from Lima's La Cantuta University—were abducted, tortured, and killed by a military death squad, took place in Peru on 18 July 1992 during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. The incident occurred two days after the Shining Path's Tarata bombing which left over 40 dead in Lima Province. The incident was among the crimes noted in the conviction of Fujimori, on 7 April 2009, on charges of human rights abuses.