By សតិវអតុ
The Communist Party of Peru (PCP/Shining Path) have been
accused of being the most violent and murderous Latin American guerrilla
movement of the last century. If there is any truth to that, the Peruvian
government is equally fascist and repressive. Against left opposition, such as
the PCP guerrillas and their allies, the government is spiteful and hateful. They
are one of the most reactionary governments of South
America .
One example of their spite was the demolition of a
mausoleum, holding the remains of eight
PCP guerrillas, that died in a prison massacres more than three decades ago. Their
remains have been taken to a cemetery in a northern part of Lima .
The mausoleum was built in 2016 by relatives of the dead
rebels and was designed to hold up to 51 niches. According to AP News:
"The remains of the eight rebels were the first to be
returned to their families. The other remains have not yet been returned.
The mausoleum was built in 2016 by relatives of the dead rebels
and was designed to hold up to 51 niches. Conservative parties in Peru
A handful of relatives of the dead rebels protested at the
cemetery’s gates but only managed to enter after the mausoleum had been torn
down.
“I felt impotence, indignation and anger; the state
doesn’t even let the dead rest in peace,” said Elviro Aponte, 80, father of one
of the rebels.
Experts says there are some 6,462 clandestine cemeteries
throughout Peru
The Peruvian government has gone out of its way to try and
erase any kind of fair treatment to the surviving veterans of the PCP guerrilla
army. There still are some active guerrilla units in Peru , but they are not as active
are large as they were before the capture of Chairman Gonzalo.[1]
Besides the actual PCP guerrillas there are political parties that have tried
to archive the PCP's history and they are trying to work out an end to the
guerrilla war. To show any sympathy for that movement is always referred to as "apology
for terrorism." That includes a political party called movadef.[2]
They are a peaceful organization that the government refuses to
recognize or legalize. Any monuments or symbols of the PCP are being destroyed
by the government, which is trying hard to re-write history so that the PCP is
always referred to as a terrorist group and described as a criminal organization
devoid of any positive political positions.
movadef has
advocated for a peace agreement between the rebels and the government. They
also promote some of the politics that the PCP would have advocated had they
been a legal organization.
The destruction of the mausoleum is pure spite. There is no
legal or political reason for doing that. It is just a way of disrespecting
those who died in their fight against the Peruvian government.
The government in Peru is not very stable right now. President
Martin Vizcarra is the present leader of Peru . He has come to power after
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned, in disgrace and under pressure from an anti-corruption campaign. Vizcarra is
leading the anti-corruption campaign and
is set to ask Congress to declare the public prosecutor’s
office in a state of emergency after the agency’s top official removed two key
investigators at the heart of a probe into a major graft scandal. The situation
is similar to the anti-corruption campaign being used as a form of a coup, in Brazil last year.
[1] AKA: Abimael Guzmán.
[2] Movimiento por la
Amnistia y los Derechos Fundamentales, The Amnesty and Fundamental Rights
Movement.
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