The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, has chosen as the new head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINI) retired Army Colonel Juan Carlos Liendo O’Connor, who considers these latest protests as «terrorist insurgency» and who already worked in this institution when it was accused of crimes against humanity during the mandate of former president Alberto Fujimori.
«If we want to approach the events we are seeing as a social conflict, we are in total error. There is no social conflict here. There is not even vandalism. They are exercises of violence with a very clear political agenda: constituent assembly, Boluarte’s resignation and the closing of Congress,» he said just a day before being elected to the post.
«This is repeated as a political objective in every place where they block a road, where they throw stones, where airports are closed. In every place where the Police and the Armed Forces are attacked, there is a political objective and that is called terrorist insurgency,» O’Connor said on Willax TV.
O’Connor has praised the role of the Police and the Army during this political crisis despite the almost thirty deaths that have already been registered since the protests in support of former President Pedro Castillo began two weeks ago, justifying that these casualties are «instigated by terrorism».
«I have been pleased to see a trained, disciplined army, acting efficiently with the use of weapons», said O’Connor, while demonstrators and international and political organizations in the opposition denounce an excessive use of force during the repression operations.
Moreover, O’Connor has accepted the position from Boluarte despite the fact that she, as vice-president in Castillo’s government, would have been one of the «functional accomplices» who in her opinion served as a «projection» of Shining Path in power.
«Today we have Sendero, the projection of Sendero, in power. And the progressive liberals, the caviars, trying to help them. In practice they are functional accomplices in the destruction of the country», said O’Connor during the convulsive mandate of Pedro Castillo, recalls the newspaper ‘La República’.
Before being elected to this position, O’Connor worked, although without decision-making power, in one of the previous versions of the DINI, the National Intelligence Service (SIN) between 1991 and 1998, when it was under the control of Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos, both in prison, the former for crimes against humanity and the latter for various crimes of drug trafficking and murder.
During those years, O’Connor worked alongside Julio Salazar Monroe, former SIN chief and former defense minister under Fujimori, who is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for the La Cantuta massacre, in which nine students and a professor were murdered and then passed off as terrorists.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
