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ONE would naturally expect confrontation and debate with the left and the Communist Party in particular, from sectors politically opposed to its policies and world outlook.
It is, however, unacceptable when it takes the form of lies, distortion, character assassination and plain hatred, all of which will harm any healthy and serious development of democracy.
The country has barely began to recover from not so distant dramatic episodes originating from ideas such as “eradicating the Marxist cancer” and a paranoid and aggressive anti-communism, which led to 20 Communist leaders and militants being murdered and disappeared in just two months of 1983 and a couple of years later to three communists having their throats slit.
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