Murder of Juan Cordova and his children in Huallamayo
Juan Córdova and three of his sons were killed by the Shining Path PCP in Huallamayo on February 2, 1992 for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This crime was part of a series of selective assassinations carried out by the PCP-SL in the Ulcumayo area to maintain territorial control.
On Sunday, February 2, 1992, a Shining Path PCP contingent of approximately fifty men entered several ranches in the district of Ulcumayo, in Junin. In Huallamayo, Juan Cordova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This assassination was part of a caravan of death that the PCP-SL carried out in the area during 1992, seeking to secure control of a strategic corridor that the militants used to move from Carhuamayo and Ulcumayo to Pasco. The action was aimed at eliminating authorities and inhabitants opposed to their cause, especially those who promoted the organization of self-defense committees.