Peru to punish “negationism”, denying a past of killings and destruction by terrorist gangs

Tuesday, August 21st 2012 - 22:08 UTC

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The Peruvian government announced that it will be sending Congress a bill that punishes the negation of the terrorist violence suffered by the country during the last decades of the last century. The bill against “negationism” is in ‘support of democracy and a unified front against terrorism’ which is still active in some parts of the country in alliance with the drug lords. Read full article

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British_Kirchnerist
Interesting. Of course I support opposition to holocaust denial and have no time for the degenerated fake leftist killers of Shining Path, but this does strike me as a bit authoritarian and a sop to the securocratic right. Peru experts, your thoughts?
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