"Fujimori Is An Assassin And Those Who Support Him Are Complicit"
The criminal manner in which the Peruvian Government
resolved the situation at the Japanese embassy in Lima
demonstrates the incapacity of governments to resolve with dialog
the conflicts that they, themselves, generate.
It disgusts us to hear and read support for Fujimori having
liberated the hostages which was achieved at the cost of the
assassination of the members of the MRTA commando.
The good treatment of the captives, the clear desire to not
create victims among them, the showing of the cruel face of the
Peruvian regime, none of these have served to impede the
enthusiastic approval of the bloody action that the army took
against the members of the MRTA.
Beginning today, silence will fall again like a blanket over
Peru. The news media will move on to other realities, leaving
forgotten everything that we have been getting to know since
December 17.
The political prisoners will go on rotting in the
prison-cemetaries that they find themselves in.
The Poverty and Misery that the majority of the Peruvian
Pueblo lives in will be silenced by the rapaciousness of the
multinational corporations.
Repression and the violation of human rights will be left as
the only repsonse of the government to the people's demands.
In spite of the gloating of the Peruvian government and the
applause of other governments, nothing has been resolved. We will
again hear the decision to continue struggle for a peace with
justice. We will again see people committed to not ending life
without rebelling.
Those of us in Euskal Herria who have bet on a society that
is more just, more free and more democratic tell you that in that
you can count on our solidarity. This is the best homage we can
give to the memory of the assassinated MRTA militants.
Bilbao, April 23, 1997
Komite Internazionalistak Askapena
