• Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      that’s exactly what it is

      fta:

      The Communist Party of Peru did not “boil children alive”. I have seen nothing like this written anywhere. They did, apparently, use scalding water as a method of execution, along with stones and machetes. They did, also, engage in the act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at the village of Lucanamarca in 1983. This act was ostensibly retaliation for the murder of PCP cadre Olegerio Curitomay by villagers. Abimael Guzman, known to his Party and the Communist movement as Presidente Gonzalo, took credit for these reprisal killings on behalf of the Party, saying: