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- Date: 20 Jan 93 15:44 PST
- Subject: MAP/MIM: AI on Sendero Lumenoso (SL
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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: MAP/MIM: AI on Sendero Lumenoso (SL)
-
- [please forward this to wherever else "rebuttals of
- MAP" have been made by the pro-MIM/SL people -- Harel]
-
- To some the mere documentation below will not mean much, but for the
- honest persons disputing my charges about Sendero, the following brief
- excerpt should be reason enough for pause and reevaluation.
-
- Recall that I said that I was distinguishing between "has committed
- some human rights abuses" which, practically, applies virtually to
- "Everyone" and "systematic, murderous campaign against civilians"
-
- The most recent copy of the Amnesty International [yearly] Report I
- have at home is 1990, which suffices (unless a vast improvement is
- claimed to have taken place since then in Sendero's behavior) for our
- purposes.
-
- Like all AI's Country Reports, the focus is on governmental abuses.
- As I wrote before, several times, there are "minimal standards" of
- respect for human rights which "some human rights abuses" does not
- necessarily violate, but which "systematic murderous campaign of
- repression" certainly does (at least, speaking for my own standards),
- so that such a group does not deserve our support -- let alone 100%
- pure condemnation-free cheerleading at MIM's articles seem to
- consistently provide for SL. Under such a situation, sometime "Life is
- Tough" and "neither the government nor the main rebel group" deserves
- our support, I wrote as well, to paraphrase -- suggesting direct
- support for grass-roots organizations is both moral, possible
- (including email I suggested), and productive.
-
- Here are facts about Sendero such that I will not support any such
- organization, nor does *cheerleading* for such an organization belong
- in misc.activism.progressive
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- Amnesty Writes:
-
- The clandestine *Partido Comunista del Peru' "Sendero Luminoso",
- Communist Party of Peru "Shining Path", remained active ... Its forces
- continued REGULARLY to murder captives in SUMMARY, EXECUTION-style
- killing, sometimes after torture and mock trials.
-
- MOST OF ITS VICTIMS WERE CIVILIANS but others killed included police
- and military personnel who were captured or incapacitated by wounds.
- [...]
-
- [Shining Path] KILLED OVER 350 PEOPLE in October alone
-
-
- [CAPITALIZATION is mine]
-
- Hence we have an organization "most" of whose victims are civilians,
- "regularly" executing these captives of theirs, and we have a rather
- high minimal figure for the number of *civilians murdered* by Sendero.
-
- The Salpress report and other documentation I have online reveal a
- completely different picture in the case of El Salvador/FMLN, and
- basic research should suffice to debunk comparisons -- made by the
- (previously, I hope) pro-Sendros writeers -- with the ANC.
-
- As I said, "minimal grounds" suffice to condemn SL; for those
- curious to compare with the [incredibly brutal, but then there is no
- "progressive" out there I need to convince not to support them, so I
- won't go on] Peruvian regime -- these were responsible, over the
- entire year, for [perhaps all of the] "at least 503" cases of
- "disappearances" and some "hundreds more" extra-judicial executions.
-
- These are ample grounds for the statements made above about SL, MIM,
- and relevance to misc.activism.progressive
-
- --
-
- Harel Barzilai
- Co-founder, Co-moderator, misc.activism.progressive (MAP) -- UseNet
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-