1/15/2015
LIMA – Peru’s national anti-terrorism attorney Julio Galindo has said he is to file a suit against the prize-winning play “The Captive” for advocating terrorism.
“At any moment, maybe tomorrow, I will do it,” Galindo told RPP Noticias radio Tuesday without specifying who he would include in the complaint.
Although Galiondo admitted that he had neither seen the work nor read the script, he said that he has received information confirming that the play is guilty of the charge.
“We can’t use the form of fiction for propaganda,” he emphasized, noting that the play features songs of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, leftist rebel group, and glorifies the figure of Abimael Guzman, the guerrilla group’s founder.
The play recounts the story of Maria Josefa, the 14-year-old daughter of two Sendero Luminoso terrorists, who is killed by the security forces and whose corpse is abused by an army general and his men.
The play takes place against the backdrop of the conflict in Peru between 1980 and 2000 when more than 69,000 people were killed, mostly by the Sendero Luminoso, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
However, the Ministry of Culture defended the play which was presented from October to December at the Teatro La Plaza in Lima.
The ministry praised the commitment made by the Drama Cultural Association and the Teatro La Plaza for awarding “The Captive” a drama prize.
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LIMA – Peru’s national anti-terrorism attorney Julio Galindo has said he is to file a suit against the prize-winning play “The Captive” for advocating terrorism.
“At any moment, maybe tomorrow, I will do it,” Galindo told RPP Noticias radio Tuesday without specifying who he would include in the complaint.
Although Galiondo admitted that he had neither seen the work nor read the script, he said that he has received information confirming that the play is guilty of the charge.
“We can’t use the form of fiction for propaganda,” he emphasized, noting that the play features songs of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, leftist rebel group, and glorifies the figure of Abimael Guzman, the guerrilla group’s founder.
The play recounts the story of Maria Josefa, the 14-year-old daughter of two Sendero Luminoso terrorists, who is killed by the security forces and whose corpse is abused by an army general and his men.
The play takes place against the backdrop of the conflict in Peru between 1980 and 2000 when more than 69,000 people were killed, mostly by the Sendero Luminoso, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
However, the Ministry of Culture defended the play which was presented from October to December at the Teatro La Plaza in Lima.
The ministry praised the commitment made by the Drama Cultural Association and the Teatro La Plaza for awarding “The Captive” a drama prize.
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