On August 6, 1945, in
Hiroshima an atomic bomb killed at least 90,000 people, perhaps as many as
146,000. On August 6, 2017, an armed group of at least 18 attacked
the military fort of Paramacay in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. After a
gun battle that lasted for three hours, two of the attackers were dead and 10
had been detained, according to the government. The rest of the attacker fled
after stealing a cache of guns form the fort.
To even suggest a
comparison between these two events may seem tasteless to most. Not so to the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (AVN)
and its main conspiracy theorist-in-residence Hernán Mena Cifuentes (previous mentions
of him on this blog can be read here
and here.)
Mena Cifuentes’s
latest piece From
the Hiroshima Genocide to paramilitary terrorism in Paramacay suggests
that “There are crimes against humanity, such as the ones perpetrated on August
6 in Hiroshima 72 years ago, and on August 6, 2017, in Paramacay Fort,
Valencia, that remain, not only in the collective memory of the people of the
countries where they were committed, but also in the whole world, the footprint
of the barbaric fascist terrorism on its grim march of violence, destruction
and death.”
“Prohibido Olvidar”
is the motto with which Mena Cifuentes closes his article.
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