"The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable"
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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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Fujimori, Alberto. (2026, January 17). The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-liberation-of-those-who-commit-murder-and-42864/
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Fujimori, Alberto. "The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-liberation-of-those-who-commit-murder-and-42864/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-liberation-of-those-who-commit-murder-and-42864/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





