Much of the left has closed ranks with Guillermo Bermejo. Without reading it, they have questioned the 15-year prison sentence for terrorist affiliation. Many do it out of electoral opportunism, cynicism or because they believe that discrediting the judicial system will sow doubt in public opinion. But the truth is that the evidence against Bermejo is overwhelming. Despite this, there is an age group that simply does not believe in the existence of subversives. They are the same activists who deny the affiliation of comrades Maraví, Cusi and Ccallo in the marches against Boluarte. They are the ones who cover their eyes against Pedro Castillo’s Shining Path ties. They do not do it just because they have not lived through the years of terrorism. It’s because they can’t even understand the notion of “terrorist.”
For the youngest, an identity that is not defined by self-determination is inconceivable. For an age group that has managed to establish the self-definition of gender and ethnicity in the legislation of several countries, it is unthinkable that a subject is not what they perceive of themselves. The generation Z believes that one can decide their own gender, their ideology and their identity. But, following that logic, everything would be terruqueo and nothing would be terrorism, because no one perceives themselves as a ‘terrorist’. Never has a Peruvian or foreign terrorist been recognized as such. The members of the MRTA and Sendero have always considered themselves social fighters, politically persecuted or, at most, guerrillas. Therefore, terrorist acts must always be determined by a third party, which is the State, the legal framework and international law. The terrorist is always defined as such by society, something that Generation Z—that is, the generation of self-perception—simply cannot understand.
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