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Peru: law passed to cremate the body of the Shining Path leader

2021-09-17T04:12:46.241Z


The Peruvian Congress approved Thursday evening, September 16 a bill to cremate the body of the historic leader of the Maoist guerrilla ...


The Peruvian Congress approved Thursday evening a bill to cremate the body of the historic leader of the Maoist guerrilla Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, who died in prison on Saturday, and thus end the controversy surrounding his remains.

The law authorizes the judiciary, judges and prosecutors to decide the fate of the body of a person convicted of terrorism who dies in prison while serving his sentence

"in the event of a possible threat to security and public order. »

, According to the text.

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The bill received 70 votes in favor, 32 against and 14 abstentions in the plenary session broadcast by the Congress TV channel. It has yet to be promulgated by the executive. The body of the former guerrilla, who died of bilateral pneumonia on September 11, is in a mortuary in the port of Callao, west of Lima. Many in Peru believe that the body should be cremated and the ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean, to avoid turning a possible grave into a place of pilgrimage for its followers. The Minister of Justice, Anibal Torres, also spoke in favor of a cremation

"so that there is no place to go for some who would like to pay homage to him"

.

Elena Yparraguirre, widow of Guzman and number two of the Shining Path, had sent Saturday from the women's prison of Chorrillos, where she is serving a life sentence, a letter through her lawyer asking the prosecution to hand over the body to a third party, for burial.

On Wednesday, the prosecution rejected this request.

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Nicknamed the "Pol Pot of the Andes" because of the cruelty of his movement, Abimael Guzman died at the age of 86 in prison where he was serving a life sentence following two convictions in 2006 and 2018. The former professor of Philosophy and Elena Yparraguirre were captured in 1992 and married in 2010 in prison. Guzman was responsible for one of the bloodiest conflicts in Latin America, which rocked Peru between 1980 and 2000, and left more than 70,000 dead and missing, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Source: lefigaro

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