terrorists are terrorists, at least in the media:
American activist Lori Berenson was pulled off a bus in Peru in November of 1995, detained by anti-terrorist police, and tried for treason against the Peruvian state by a hooded military tribunal. A gun was held to her head as she received her sentence: life in prison. Accused of being a leader of the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement), Lori was one of thousands of people kidnapped, tortured, disappeared, and/or imprisoned during then-president Alberto Fujimori’s campaign to defeat rebel groups.Emma Shaw Crane/UpsideDownWorld 25.Sep.08Do you have hope for the Chavez/Morales movement in Latin America, the threat of having a unified Latin American bloc that could potentially create solidarity among Latin American countries? What do you think about that?
I think it’s important that there be solidarity. But I don’t have enough information to know what they are really doing or not. What is clear to me is that it is still not possible to change the rules of the game. That’s the issue. You have to get to that place. It’s good that they feel this way. Certainly here in Peru the leaders seem to be afraid of something about the Chavez movement. What are they so afraid of? And the Peruvians are very afraid. And much of the U.S. is too. Actually, I think that they are giving us a hand on that. By making bigger deals out of things, they are actually unifying the left on certain things. Well, thank you!
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The Barrios Altos massacre took place on 3 November 1991, in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. Fifteen people, including an eight year old child, were killed, and four more injured, by assailants who were later determined to be members of Grupo Colina, a death squad made up of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces.wikipedia
The atrocity came to be seen as a symbol of the human rights violations committed during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori and was one of the crimes for which Fujimori was extradited from Chile to Peru on September 20, 2007. It had previously been cited in the request for his extradition submitted by the Peruvian government to Japan in 2003.
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The La Cantuta massacre, in which a university professor and nine students from Lima's La Cantuta University were abducted and "disappeared" by a military death squad, took place in Peru on 18 July 1992 during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. The incident occurred just two days after the Shining Path's Tarata bombing left over 40 dead in Lima Province.ibid.
The incident is notable not only for the violations of human rights that it entailed, but for the impunity subsequently enjoyed by its perpetrators. It was one of crimes for which Fujimori was extradited to Peru on 20 September 2007 and was cited in the request for the extradition of Fujimori submitted by the Peruvian government to Japan in 2003.
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Trial against former Peruvian President Fujimori resumes
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The trial of Alberto Fujimori
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Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru, and three former ministers may be accused of genocide by Peru's parliament.British Medical Journal
A commission concluded that thousands of Peruvians—mostly poor indigenous people—underwent compulsory surgical sterilisation that resulted in damage to their dignity and physical integrity including deaths due to improper health care.
The report on the “voluntary contraceptive surgery activities” programme set up by Mr Fujimori's government was released on 23 July by health minister Dr Fernando Carbone-Campoverde.
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Peru's military blames Shining Path for deadly attack
[This article, as you might expect, is written in a way that presents the Peruvian military as defenders of the innocent, and the Tupac Amaru as killers of the innocent.
As with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict one side has a voice and the other has no voice, not in the US anyway, and carnage by the actual villains is presented as simply a response by the more powerful side against the violent attacks of the less powerful.
And just as in Palestine, it's the ones CNN paints as in the wrong who are actually in the right.
These are not murky gray-area moral situations. They only seem that way because the truth is not allowed to be heard in the commercial media that most Americans still rely on for their views of the world.]
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Committee to Free Lori Berenson
These are not murky gray-area moral situations. They only seem that way because the truth is not allowed to be heard in the commercial media that most Americans still rely on for their views of the world.]
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Committee to Free Lori Berenson
