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[-] boboblaw@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Of those killed by the Shining Path, eighteen were children, the youngest of whom was only six months old.

You got a source for this part?

The interview doesn't seem quite as damning as you're making it out to be. He seems to be saying they dealt a devastating blow to the mesnadas.(which are supposedly government-run paramilitaries?)

He claims the army came in and

formed armed groups, called mesnadas

right before he says

In the face of reactionary military actions and the use of mesnadas, we responded with a devastating action

So he doesn't appear to be saying they murdered a bunch of unarmed peasants, he's saying they attacked an armed paramilitary group.

we weren't the same as those they had fought before

This also doesn't suggest unarmed peasants.

I'm not saying he's telling the truth, or that they didn't kill any innocent people. It's just far from him openly admitting they killed babies.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He seems to be saying they dealt a devastating blow to the mesnadas.

He did this by killing 29 women and children in an unrelated village? This is open revenge killing of the poorest and most oppressed in society. shameful to defend this shit. The reports actually have 69 deaths whereas Gonzalo claims 80. Basically half of the deaths were kids and random civilians? This is not how the Bolsheviks fought their revolution, nor the Chinese Communists. They didn't kill peasant children purposefully and include them in their "kill count" they "annihilated". This is bloodthirsty mania, out of control, aimed downward not at the rich.