Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:26:28 +0100 (MET)
Subject: M-G: Peru-Imperialism,MRTA, and the hostages! (Declaration)


It is very interesting for poor and working class people to observe the 
spectacular occupation of the Japanese Embassy in Peru by the MRTA, the 
reactions to this occupation by the imperialists and the hostage question!

In that the MRTA did not occupy and airplane or a train station with 
hundreds of hostages of normal people. But took 4 or 5 hundred darlings of 
the diplomatic corps, includind a bunch of "military attachees" (in reality 
spies) and a bunch of high placed business executives- we see that the 
normal reaction of imperialism of "No compromise with terrorism" and "we are 
preparing and anti-terrorist army to storm the building" have completely 
disappeared! Instead we hear the imperialist spokesman talking about a 
peaceful solution to the "crisis". 

How quaint that imperialism defends these hostages and darlings of their own 
class rule! If it had been poor and working class people who were held 
hostage then we would have seen a storming of the building and the 
possibility of a blood bath for innocent civilians to show the world that 
terrorism must be met with superior force.
However, Fujimora just might storm the embassy despite the "peaceful 
solutions" tone coming from the imperialists. Fujimora might decide that the 
Peruvian foreign minister is worth the price of a bloody storming. 

So the struggle against terrorism in reality depends on *who* is held 
hostage-Joe Blow poor and working class people or the darlings of the 
imperialist powers. Poor and working class people should have NO TEARS for 
these so called "innocent hostages" who in fgact are part and pack in giving 
money and political support to the Fujimora regime which has so much blood 
of poor and working class people in Peru on their hands! And if any blood is 
shed it is entirely because of the bloody regime that Fujimora represents 
and which drives militants to these kind of heroric suicidal actions.

At the same time we should support the just demands of the MRTA of releasing 
the political prisoners held in concentration like camps and live daily with 
torture and murder of opponents to this regime led by Fujimora and backed up 
by the military.
At the same time we should say to the people in MRTA that their adventurist 
actions of guerilla warfare and small groups of dedicated people with arms 
in hand taking on alone the military dictatorship of the Fujimora regime are 
completely bankrupted! Only by arming the Peruvian working class and 
perasantry both politically and with guns and setting up a real workers and 
peasants goverment can sweep away this rotten regime including the darlings 
(hostages) that are presently being held.

We should defend these militants despite their adventurist actions against 
the Peruvian regime. While at the same time condemning them for political 
bankruptcy. We do not need isolated groups of heroes who attack ambassies 
and take hostages. We need professional revolutionaries who can mobilize the 
working class and peasants who have the social power to sweep the Fujimora 
garbage on to the dustbin of history!

And we should no the deference between the MRTA which gets its inspiration 
>from the Cuban revolution and the terrorism that evolves out of Islamic 
fundementalism which wants to take society back to the middle ages!

We need Communist Bolshevik organosations thoughout Latin America that can 
link the struggles to a continental and world movement.

Victory for the MRTA militants and their just demands!

Meet the demands of the MRTA!

Free all militants from the Fujimora concentration camps!

No political support to MRTA's petty bougeois adventurism! 

Defend the MRTA from Fujimora and imperialist attack!

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

PS: See list of hostages below..

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List of hostage "Darlings"...

Peru Hostage List

Some of the hostage crowd taken by the MRTA group at the 
Lima residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru:
  
PERUVIAN OFFICIALS
Foreign minister
Agriculture minister
Speaker of parliament
Supreme Court president
Three Peruvian legislators

JAPANESE OFFICIAL
* Chief advisor to the Japan International Cooperation Agency
  
AMBASSADORS TO PERU
Austria
Bolivia
Brazil
Britain
Bulgaria
Canada
Cuba
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Japan
Malaysia
Panama
Poland
Romania
South Korea
Spain
Venezuela
European Union
  
JAPANESE BUSINESS PEOPLE
* Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., head of Peru division
and three Japanese staff members
* Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd., head of energy department at
Tokyo headquarters, head of Lima branch and four Japanese staff
members
* Tomen Corp., Lima branch head and one Peruvian staff member
* Nissho Iwai Corp., Lima branch head and one Japanese staff
member
* Kanematsu Corp., Lima branch head and one Japanese staff member
* Mitsui & Co. Ltd., head of Mitsui Peru and three Japanese staff
members
* Marubeni Corp., head of Lima branch and two Japanese staff
members
* Mitsubishi Corp., head of Mitsubishi Peru and two Japanese
staff members
* Ajinomoto Co. Inc., head of Ajinomoto Peru and two staff
members
* NEC Corp., Lima branch head and one Japanese staff member
* Toyota Motor Corp., head of Toyota Peru and one Japanese staff
member
* Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., head of Nissan Peru
* Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., head of Asahi Chemical Peru
* Fujita Corp., Lima branch head
* Japan Water Works (Jogesuido) Co., local project manager and
four Japanese staff members
* Japan Airlines (JAL) Co. Ltd., head of local affiliate
* Japan Bonita and Tuna Fishing Assn., head of Lima branch
  
OTHERS
Other hostages were believed to include:
Teachers sent to Japanese school in Lima
Members of Japanese associations: 10 Japanese and 22 Japanese
Peruvians
Note: It is unclear which of these hostages may have been
released.
  
(Source: The Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com)
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