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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.   

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