From: detcom-AT-sprynet.com Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 02:45:07 -0800 Subject: M-G: El Diario Internacional #36 -Who Claims the Maoist Guerillas are EL DIARIO INTERNACIONAL NUMBER 36 SEPTEMBER 1996 (Board): "El Diario Internacional" A Monthly Publication at the Service of the Oppressed Masses of Peru Responsible Editor: Luis Arce Borja Address outside Peru: BP 705 1000 Bruxelles 1 Belgium Fax Number: 32-2649 41 56 Distributed in Europe, USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia ..... Edited in Spanish, French, English, Italian. ______________________________________________________ NOW, WHO CLAIMS THAT THE MAOIST GUERILLAS ARE DEFEATED? - The Actions of August and September - Clay Doll "Heroes" - Dictatorship and Militarisation - RIM: Revolution or Counter-revolution? EDITORIAL THE CIVIL WAR IN PERU NOW: WHERE IS THE "DEFEAT OF SHINING PATH"? Abundant evidence easily demonstrating that the purported "Pacification of Peru" is a scam fabricated by the media at the service of the Peruvian dictatorship exists all over the place. Ceaseless lies asserting that the Fujimori regime has accomplished "the defeat of Shining Path" are used to publicise Peru as a completely peaceful and stable country. To debunk this disinformation campaign it is sufficient to point to a few facts that show beyond doubt that currently Peru is far >from the earthly paradise the Fujimori dictatorship claims to have built. 15.000 PRISONERS Fifteen thousand people have been imprisoned since 1992 according to data from the Peruvian Public Registry of Detained Persons (RUDE). That means 3,700 a year, 312 a month, or more than 10 a day. >From the 15.000 people accused of "terrorism", more than 10.000 continue to languish in the dark dungeons of the Peruvian regime. Only 4.000 were able to regain their freedom. This data does not include the disappeared and kidnapped, daily victimised by the state repressive forces. This wide ranging repression with its consequent vast number of victims at the hands of the military and the police, means that Peru has become the Latin American country with the highest level of prisons, political prisoners and war prisoners. MILITARISATION Another element inscribed within the internal war in Peru is the percentage of national territory under emergency rule - that is to say, regions under absolutist military regime and political control by the Armed Forces. According to official data, 58% of Peruvian territory is currently under state of emergency. Nearly 12 million people live within this militarised territory and they are victims of the most brutal outrages at the hands of soldiers and police. To all this we must add the accelerated growth of the state's military apparatus. Currently, Peru, with over 600,000 personnel under arms (soldiers, police, paramilitary and reactionary militia), is the second largest military establishment in South America. The Military Courts and the "Faceless Judges" are also to be taken into consideration as part and parcel of this militarisation of society which has turned Peru - in the midst of the 20th Century - into a medieval enclave. However, the principal factor in the social and political reality of the country is the vigorous presence of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) whose political and military activities have the government and its repressive forces constantly in check. The current regime's triumphal hoopla - a phenomena that reached its most raucous and drunken stupor with the capture of Chairman Gonzalo in September 1992 - has now dissipated into funeral chamber murmur (see Table of Guerilla Actions of the last two months). FICTION AND ITS AUTHORS Now, the inventors of this fictional "defeat of the rebellion" - besides the comical ridicule they have sunk into - have began talking of a "return of Shining Path". Raul Gonzalez, who with his usual professorial tone was for years prattling day in and day out about "the end of Shining Path's terror", has changed his tune and tearfully cries: "Four years after the capture of its top leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso, Shining Path has regained its organisational functions and capacity for coordinating its terrorist actions" (La Republica, 13/09/96). Even Manuel D'Ornellas, the very Guardian Angel of Fujimori's earthly paradise, a man who we could well regard as the "prophet" of "the defeat of Shining Path", has had to trim his sails and change his script. He has recently admitted: "Four years after the capture of Abimael Guzman, his Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation is showing signs of a certain recuperation" (Expreso, 12/09/96). Taking up his seat in this "Senderologist picnic", Ismael Frias, the well known Trotskyst, also contributes his penny's worth. He tearfully sobs: "We now face the rebirth of Shining Path". According to him "the car-bombings, selective assassinations, acts of sabotage and guerilla raids in Lima and the provinces" are proof of this. ----------------- CURRENT AFFAIRS (TABLES) Repression in Fujimori's Paradise 92-95 Yearly Monthly Daily 15.000 3,700 312 10 ------------------------------------------ PRINCIPAL GUERILLA ACTIONS IN AUGUST 1996 Date Place Action 1/8 Sihuas - La Libertad Guerilla seizes town and holds People's Assembly 2/8 Aucayacu - A.H. 100 guerillas attack military base 2/8 Crespo/Castilla - A.H. Police post attacked, two policemen killed. 5/8 Rio Ene - San Martin Patrol ambushed. 3 soldiers killed. 6/8 El Agustino - Lima Electricity Tower dynamited. Policeman wounded. 6/8 La Esperanza - Trujillo Police sub-Lieutenant executed. 6/8 Tayabamba - Libertad Police post attacked. 2 policemen killed. 6/8 Huarcatan - Ayacucho Militia base attacked. 2 ronderos killed. 7/8 San Borja - Lima Telephone exchange attacked with explosives. 7/8 Huanta - Ayacucho Paramilitary base attacked. 2 ronderos killed. 8/8 Huanta - Ayacucho Military fort attacked. 3 soldiers killed. 20/8 J. Bernardo - Pucallpa Armed Propaganda incursion. 20/8 J.Maria U. - Pucallpa Armed Propaganda incursion. 20/8 Rio Azul - Pucallpa Armed Propaganda incursion. 20/8 Mesones Muro - Pucallpa Armed Propaganda incursion. 20/8 Margarita - Pucallpa Armed Propaganda incursion. 21/8 Las Delicias - Pucallpa Federico Basadre Highway seized during 3 hours. 21/8 D. A. Robles - Junin Guerillas seize town and execute snitch. 21/8 Pumahuasi - Junin Town seized and People's Assembly takes place. 24/8 Tambo - Ayacucho Guerillas seize control of Tambo Highroad. 24/8 Nuevo P. - Yarinacocha Fujimorist mayor's villa dynamited. 27/8 Uchiza - A. H. (2) Sabotage in military base. 5 soldiers die. 30/8 San Miguel - La Mar Town seized. 3 policemen wounded. (1) A.H. = Alto Huallaga (2) The Political-Military Command of Leoncio Prado province first kept silent and then alleged that the explosion killing the soldiers was "an accident". PRINCIPAL ACTIONS UP TO SEPTEMBER 21, 1996. 15/9 Jaen - Chiclayo Guerillas seize control of Highroad. 16/9 Cartambo - T. Maria Town seized, rondero executed 16/9 Huagcha - Pariacoto Military transport hit, 2 policemen wounded. 16/9 Cargatambo - T. Maria Town seized and political rally held. 17/9 Olmos - Corral Quemado Highroad seized for 5 hours. 18/9 Cunayoc - Huanuco Public transport and vehicle control taken. 18/9 Ucayali Several towns seized by guerillas. 18/9 A. Afilador - T. Maria Town seized a new authorities take over. 19/9 Tingo Maria Town seized and army agent executed. 19/9 Lima Government Official attacked. 19/9 La Divisoria - Ucayali Marine patrol ambushed. 20/9 Rio Apurimac Battle between the Army and the Guerillas. 20/9 Tapuna - Apurimac Guerillas seize control of Highway. 21/9 Apurimac Highway closed during four hours. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS The People's War in Peru continues to be the central problem besieging the Peruvian regime. Whatever Fujimori and his cronies may say, the Maoist guerillas are fully operational and active all along the national territory. The regime's propaganda about the purported "defeat of Shining Path" has been buried in the necropolis of official lies. Bit by bit, like in the well know Latin melody ("Poco a Poco"), the psycho-social warfare propaganda designed to smother the Maoists began to crumble and fall apart. The Peruvian media - supine allies of the regime - has again began to scream in panic. Now they speak of "subversive rebirth" and moan about what they call "terrorist re-configuration". The months of July, August and September 96 have revealed a new course in the development of the People's War. Attacks on police barracks, ambushes on army patrols, armed raids on dozens of towns, celebration of People's Assemblies, seizure of highroads, car-bombs aimed at military targets in the capital, selective elimination of paramilitary thugs and other agents of the regime, have crowned an important Maoist guerilla offensive. This guerilla offensive has strategic character within the plans and future campaigns of the PCP. On the one hand, it is plain that the political-military apparatus of the PCP is fully functional and unscathed. The main pivot framing its actions is the strategic equilibrium in the People's War. On the other hand, the rebel's actions have had demolishing political effects at the highest levels of the government and its armed forces. The continuing actuality of the internal war sharpens the conflicts between the state's ruling classes. The current crisis besieging the Fujimori regime and his military clique is one of the consequences of this development of the guerilla struggle in Peru. As a result of the accelerated rise in the intensity of the People's War, all their manoeuvres aimed at portraying the PCP as a divided organisation undergoing an implacable "struggle between two tendencies" are shown as hollow wishful thinking. Within this framework, the promoters of the "peace letters" plot - capitulators and agents - should consider changing their line of business. Their spluttering babble about "negotiations" and "peace agreements" is evidently no longer of any use for their masters. ____________________________ --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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