TERRORISM AND DEMOCRACY: TWO DOCUMENTARIES POINT TO THE PERUVIAN EXAMPLE

While the detention of Guzmán proved fatal for Sendero Luminoso, Peru's military intelligence, under Vladimiro Montesinos, intensified the persecution of terrorism suspects, the use of torture, and death squads. In "State of Fear," a woman named Magdalena Monteza described how, on her first day at university, she was arrested, raped multiple times, and imprisoned. Sitting beside her in the interview is the girl who was born from the rape. In "The Fall of Fujimori," Fujimori points out that he was overwhelmingly re-elected for a second term in 1995. "What were Peruvians willing to do in the name of peace?" Perry asks in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "They allowed military tribunals, they allowed death squads, they knew this was going on." And she adds: "I am perplexed that despite the pre-1995 charges, his re-election was a landslide victory." While the detention of Guzmán proved fatal for Sendero Luminoso, Peru's military intelligence, under Vladimiro Montesinos, intensified the persecution of terrorism suspects, the use of torture, and death squads. In "State of Fear," a woman named Magdalena Monteza described how, on her first day at university, she was arrested, raped multiple times, and imprisoned. Sitting beside her in the interview is the girl who was born from the rape. In "The Fall of Fujimori," Fujimori points out that he was overwhelmingly re-elected for a second term in 1995. "What were Peruvians willing to do in the name of peace?" Perry asks in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "They allowed military tribunals, they allowed death squads, they knew this was going on." And she adds: "I am perplexed that despite the pre-1995 charges, his re-election was a landslide victory."