"The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable"
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Order is the selling point here, and “unacceptable” is the hinge: a moral absolute presented as administrative common sense. Fujimori’s line works by shrinking a messy political landscape into a single, unarguable category - “those who commit murder and terrorism” - then treating their continued confinement as the baseline of civilization. It’s security rhetoric built to end debate, not start it.
The specific intent is twofold. First, it signals resolve to a public primed to fear insurgent violence; in Peru, that fear had names and tactics, from Shining Path to MRTA. Second, it frames any policy that eases sentences, grants amnesty, or revises convictions as a betrayal of victims and a threat to the state. “Liberation” is doing heavy emotional work: it conjures gates thrown open and danger pouring out, even when the real-world mechanism might be legal review, due process, or negotiated demobilization.
The subtext is where the power - and the danger - lives. By welding “murder” and “terrorism” together, the quote implies a unified moral class that deserves no second look. That makes it easier to delegitimize human-rights concerns as softness, and to paint opponents as complicit. In Fujimori’s era, that logic dovetailed with an expansive counterterror model that blurred the line between insurgent and suspect.
Context sharpens the irony: Fujimori’s rule became synonymous with both defeating insurgency and with grave abuses by state-aligned forces. The sentence reads like a vow of protection, but it also functions as preemptive insulation against scrutiny - of prisoners’ cases, and of the state’s own violence.
The specific intent is twofold. First, it signals resolve to a public primed to fear insurgent violence; in Peru, that fear had names and tactics, from Shining Path to MRTA. Second, it frames any policy that eases sentences, grants amnesty, or revises convictions as a betrayal of victims and a threat to the state. “Liberation” is doing heavy emotional work: it conjures gates thrown open and danger pouring out, even when the real-world mechanism might be legal review, due process, or negotiated demobilization.
The subtext is where the power - and the danger - lives. By welding “murder” and “terrorism” together, the quote implies a unified moral class that deserves no second look. That makes it easier to delegitimize human-rights concerns as softness, and to paint opponents as complicit. In Fujimori’s era, that logic dovetailed with an expansive counterterror model that blurred the line between insurgent and suspect.
Context sharpens the irony: Fujimori’s rule became synonymous with both defeating insurgency and with grave abuses by state-aligned forces. The sentence reads like a vow of protection, but it also functions as preemptive insulation against scrutiny - of prisoners’ cases, and of the state’s own violence.
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