Statement by Minister of the Interior Óscar Brush Noel on supreme values against terrorism
Interior Minister Oscar Brush Noel declared on December 1, 1984 that all Peruvians should defend the values of God, country and family against communist terrorism, characterizing communism as atheistic and destructive of these fundamental values.
On December 1, 1984, the Minister of the Interior, General EP Oscar Brush Noel, made public statements affirming that all Peruvians should defend the supreme values of God, homeland and family against communist terrorism. In his declarations to the newspaper El Diario, published on December 2, Brush Noel stated that "communism is atheist and that is why it tries to destroy God, it does not know what is homeland, what is society or what is family". These statements were part of the government's strategy against subversion in the context of the internal armed conflict.