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State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism (Peru's War on Terror 1980-2000)

Chapters: i. Seeds of violence 1970-80 ii. Separate worlds 1980 iii. Terror takes root 1980 iv. Fighting fire with fire 1982 v. The long night 1982-88 vi. Spreading violence vii. Promise betrayed 1989 viii. A city under siege 1990 ix. Tyranny of fear 1993-2000 x. Seeking truth and democracy 2000 xi. The aftermath: one year later The fascinating story of Peru's savage 20-year civil war and struggle against the psychotic Maoist guerilla movement 'Sendero Luminoso' (The Shining Path) under the demonically charismatic maoist fanatic Abimael Guzman, aka Chairman Gonzalo and how he nearly destroyed Peruvian society. For 13 years Guzman and his marauding band of maoist thugs waged a relentless war of indiscriminate terror against the civil population both in the countryside and the cities. It shows how the war took Peru to the brink of collapse, and details systematic human rights abuses committed by the military and government forces. Just as he appeared to be on the verge of bringing about a collapse of Peruvian society, Guzman was dramatically captured by a special forces unit in Lima in 1992 and later tried and imprisoned and even turned informer, bringing about the sudden collapse and disintegration of his movement. The film shows rare footage of the police surveillance and home video footage of Guzman in his Lima apartment shortly before his capture. Theodore Dalrymple compared Sendero to the Khmer Rouge, also inspired by Mao: "The worst brutality I ever saw was that committed by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru, in the days when it seemed possible that it might come to power. If it had, I think its massacres would have dwarfed those of the Khmer Rouge. As a doctor, I am accustomed to unpleasant sights, but nothing prepared me for what I saw in Ayacucho, where Sendero first developed under the sway of a professor of philosophy, Abimael Guzmán." Backed by media and big business, President Alberto Fujimori cyncially exploited the war and panic to assume authoritarian powers and used emergency anti-terror powers to eliminate and silence opposition long after the terrorist threat had passed. Film is a powerful reminder and warning of how terrorism can turn a nation in on itself and tears at the fabric of society turning neighbour against neighbour and how those who fight it become as brutal and ruthless as the terrorists and can destroy the democracy it claims to protect. It also describes the aftermath and fall of Fujimori and subsequent efforts to bring about reconciliation and closure to a traumatised nation and his successors. WARNING: contains violence and scenes of atrocities