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Uproar over Peru anti-terrorist police investigation of play about 1980-2000 internal conflict
Original Publication Date: January 12, 2015 8:14AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 9:03PM
LIMA, Peru – An acclaimed Peruvian theatre work exploring the trauma of the country’s 1980-2000 internal conflict is drawing another kind of attention — from anti-terrorist police.
An investigation was opened into the play, “The Captive,” after a police investigator wrote a report deeming it sympathetic to Shining Path rebels.
The play by Luis Alberto Leon closed in Lima in December. It examines the conflict’s atrocities through a dead 14-year-old girl, whose a corpse is nevertheless animate.
Interior Minister Daniel Urresti defended the police probe Monday after the report was leaked. He said police must do their all to prevent a Shining Path comeback.
The Culture Ministry defended the play Monday as “promoting reflection.”
Catholic University professor Cesar de Maria called the police investigation an absurd embarrassment.
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