Peru in an Age of Terror

I will discuss a particular topic that stood out to me from this section of history and the corresponding primary documents. Both President Fujimori and Chairman Gonzalo alluded to the need "for revolutionary violence", the need to completely remove the status quo and establish a new system. Gonzalo, drawing on Mao's ideals, states that "Revolutionary violence is what allows us to resolve fundamental contradictions by means of an army, through people’s war". Fujimori used a more political approach, by dissolving the (at the time current) Congress and Constitution, and establishing new ones, with force.
I feel like both of them, although different in many ways, shared this notion of an extremely radical change. Thinking back throughout history, I get the sense that when a prominent leader of any kind (president, monarch, chairman and so on) believes in and even acts on such notions, the outcome is likely to be too extreme. Guzmán's ruthless actions of bombings and assassinations were indeed catastrophic and cruel. Fujimori, as a response, made huge changes in the government itsel, but with extreme actions that also included crimes against humanity. In the 9.3 document, he almost seems upset and angry at how the nation sees his government. The major change in the government that he created seemed, to me, as though he snapped all of a sudden, like someone who has become so frustrated with the work at hand, that they just start all over. It was a very calculated snap. The death of the eight journalists was the line. However, both parties were capable and willing to carry out the heinous acts of terror and injustice of that war.