On December 18, 2024, the LUM (Place of Memory) commemorated one more year of the murder of the union leader Pedro Huilca Tecsebut he did so by pointing out the Colina Group as guilty of the ominous crime of 1992.
Despite the judicial evidence, the LUM He insisted on spreading fake news. It doesn’t matter that even the Shining Path has taken responsibility for the Huilca crime; The final sentence or the testimony that identified ‘Comrade Cusi’ does not matter. When it comes to political activism, LUM He had no problem publishing fake news. And it is not an isolated case. He LUM He also censored the documentary 1214: We do not fear the cowards, about the APRA martyrs in the fight against the Shining Path. Far away seem the days in which the LUM It was managed with plurality and criteria by Guillermo Nugent, who was asked to resign in 2017 for the exhibition “Visual resistance: 1992”.
He LUM has changed a lot. At the beginning I didn’t even use the figure of the CVR and did not record the memory of the Asháninka minorities violated by terrorism. Over time, the bias has become more evident. There is not in all LUM a minimum (self) criticism of the left for its role in the face of terrorism. Until the CVR She was tougher in that regard.
Its deposed former director Manuel Burga says that “I would rather it disappear than have the narrative changed.” A clear example of intolerance, analogous to that shown by the brute and selfish right that seeks to close it. The solution is not to close the LUM, but to expand it. Make a truly plural museum that tells what happened in those years or create other museums, other spaces in which each institution can tell its part of the story. Create more memory, not less.
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