Most of the article is pretty levelheaded, but this got a chuckle out of me:
The Communist Party of Peru did not “boil children alive”. I have seen nothing like this written anywhere. They did, apparently, use scalding water as a method of execution, along with stones and machetes. They did, also, engage in the act of killing infants, elderly people, and pregnant women at the village of Lucanamarca in 1983.
Technically they didn’t boil babies, they just sometimes executed people with scalded water, and some of the people they executed were babies.
Bonus from the comments:
This is where my ignorance on history begins to show. I wasn’t aware that Maoists (I assume that is what MLM is referring to) were generally considered Ultras. I’ve been a fan of Mao for a long time so this was kind of important to know
MLM ≠ Mao. Mao’s philosophy is Marxism Leninism Mao Zedong Thought. It can be kinda confusing, but MLM is a post-Mao synthesis.