Uruguayan lawmakers mark the difference between “terrorism” and “armed insurgency”

Saturday, June 18th 2011 - 01:04 UTC

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A group of Uruguayan lawmakers have written a letter to Peruvian president-elect Ollanta Humala requesting a more humane treatment for Victor Polay Campos, head of the guerrilla Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, MRTA, jailed since 1992. Read full article

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Sergio Vega
What a joke.....!!!!
Now you can kill people as you wish just with a “ revolutionary principles daclaration” as a leftist group without consecuecies and rights to be well treated by the justice because they are innocent “armed insurgents”.......Well, is the same treatment considered for the state forces that “by law and constitution” must defend de safety and stability of the state and the rest of the people of the country against revolutionary armed and violentist groups ?

Carzy guys this Uruguayan unlawmakers...is just missing a honor medal to those “nun's boys” from Tupac Amaru and other similar criminals (Chilean MIR and M. Rodriguez killers included).....

Are we going back to the 70's or 80's ?? I hope no, really. Even Cuban regime is coming back defeated from the comunism system......after thousend killed and starved .......

Well done, clever guys.
Jun 18th, 2011 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
An interesting and fine distinction being made by these Uruguayan lawyers:

Terrorists are 'Hard killers',
Freedom Fighters ('Armed Insurgents') are 'Soft killers'., and
Military are just 'Killers'.

In international law the coarse distinction is that:

Terrorists kill the common man indiscriminately,
Armed Insurgents concentrate on killing Military, with collateral,
Military act on behalf of the state to protect the people.

We all know that men with guns can be a law unto themselves, and can move beyond their brief, even to the point of assuming ownership of the country itself.
But in less troubled times (no terrorists, no armed insurgents), their role is the maintenence of the State, the maintainence of law and order, for the benefit of the citizens themselves.
They obay orders and, if ordered to fire in a riot situation, are mandated by the state (the people) to do so
- another fine line, especially if the orders are at the margins of the Terms of Engagement.
Jun 19th, 2011 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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