On 01/14/04 at 09:05 PM, Viajero viajero@quilombo.nl said:
most of his edits seem reasonable and he doesn't get into silly edit wars
Having written this yesterday now I am not so sure. LM just edited [[Shining Path]] and I found myself in disagreement with ALL his edits. Here are just two:
For one, he insists that the group be called the Peruvian Communist Party, claiming that Shining Path is a perjorative label used by the US media (!!!). For his rationale and my counterargument, please see to the Talk page.
He also deleted this text
During this era, Shining Path used tactics that included conscription of children, forced labor, executions by stoning and throat-slitting (ostensibly to save bullets), destruction of the electricity infrastructure, indiscrimate bombings, and targeted assassinations of political opponents.
yet left the text following it intact:
However, in fighting Shining Path, the Peruvian armed forces also committed many atrocities. It destroyed villages and massacred campesinos it suspected of being supporters of Shining Path.
The problem is that during this period, unlike in Soviet Russia, Peru did have a relatively free media and the atrocities of Shining Path /have/ been well documented.
LM seems to have a serious problem acknowledging atrocities on the part of his ideological bedmates.
Jiang and I have both asked him on his Talk page to devote more effort to justifiying his edits on Talk pages; I suggest others do as well.
V.