Green Peace damages Nacza lines

[Chas]

It wasn't vandalism. The message put down was not damaging, any alleged damage would have been accidental.
Peru has claimed there was damage but there is no description of it. Evidence?

This is willful defacement of a historical monument. It isn't any different than TPing (covering in toilet paper) Mount Rushmore. It is vandalism pure and simple.

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Even after reading the CNN article, I assumed that placing the letters meant that they painted them which seems amazingly disrespectful. I am glad to learn that they placed cutouts on the site. Still a stupid thing to do but hopefully, they can rectify the damage.

Not even government officials are allowed on that site without special permission. It is so sensitive to foot traffic that when people do visit it, they are required to use special shoes and follow a strict protocol(which I am imagining probably involves walking on their tippy toes)

Nope. Vandalism requires damaging or defacing.

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Yes it wasn't the smartest thing they could have done, but I'm with Chas here. The letters are cutouts which were laid on top of the ground, and I'm not seeing this most visible of all lines they damaged. Did they erase it completely?

Here's a USA Today article explaining it more in-depth:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../20318005/

Still no evidence or even a description of damage.