Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:19:05 +0300
From: Jan <hiworld-AT-dds.nl>
Subject: Antifascist Alert: Shame on Swedish Government


Hello,

as you probably know, the Antifascist Web releases sometimes "Antifascist
Alerts", focusing on an important issue.

Greetings,
Jan;-)

> [From El Diario Internacional No. 28, March 1996.]
>   SWEDISH GOVERNMENT DELIVERS PERUVIAN TO FUJIMORI'S DEATH SQUADS
>                          RETURN FROM HELL
>
> The title to this note is not from any movie. It belongs in real life, the
> character is still alive and now lives in Stockholm (Sweden). He was a
> victim of the reactionary policy being applied by Swedish authorities
> against Peruvian seeking political asylum. This history, truthful and
> dramatic, it itself shows how the Swedish government, which fancies
> itself "democratic" that boast to uphold the "universal human rights,"
> openly collaborates with the Peruvian regime, which is considered one
> of the most brutal and abominable in South America.
>
> Napoleon Aponte is a 32 year old Peruvian, graduated as an Industrial
> Engineer in one of Moscow's most prestigious schools. In the first
> months of 1994 he arrived in Sweden as a candidate for political
> asylum. After finishing his studies and having remained 10 years
> outside his country, he could not return to Peru because his family was
> classified by Peruvian police as "sympathizers with Sendero." One of
> Aponte's sisters died in the Canto Grande prison in 1992, when the
> Peruvian regime murdered 100 political prisoners.
>
>     Napoleon's odysee began in the first days of August 1994. The office
> for refugee affairs presided by Ms. Berith Rolhen had summoned him
> to "let him know the results of his application" for political asylum. But
> the only results he was given were two husky policemen in civilian
> clothes, who took him by the arm and led him to a cell, waiting for his
> expulsion from the country. After being confined for 50 days in a jail
> in Stockholm, he was shipped by plane to Peru. There Aponte would
> be handed over to the bloody counterinsurgency police of the Fujimori
> regime.
>
> The plane landed in the "Jorge Chavez" airport in Lima. Three
> Swedish police, a woman and two men, were charged with delivering
> him directly to DINCOTE (National Direction Against Terrorism)
> agents. For the last time he glanced the blond police who had escorted
> him in the long air voyage. The woman was not able to evade the look
> and smiled with a contemptuous grim before leaving with her
> colleagues. "Now it's our turn," said in a hoarse and alcoholic voice
> one of the Peruvian policemen.
>
>              IN THE TEETH OF THE WOLF
>
>     From the airport he was taken to the cells of the DINCOTE general
> headquarters. His face was covered with a mask so he could not see the
> streets. Right after he reached DINCOTE the tortures began. His arms
> were tied behind his back and he was submerged repeatedly in a tub
> filled with putrid water. He passed out and when he woke up he found
> himself tied to a body in advanced state of decomposition and full of
> worms. The stench from the corpse was untenable and he felt like
> vomiting. He couldn't and then tried to cry out but could not do that
> either.
>
> >From DINCOTE, after 15 days, he was taken to the cells in the Palace
> of Justice. There, Aponte tells us a new stage of his torment began.
> The cells were flooded with dirty water and rats covered the floor like
> a huge gray carpet. "From that sinister place I was taken to the Canto
> Grande prison: the same prison where my sister had been murdered."
>
> "I was locked up in a little cell, barely having space to sit down or
> stretch myself with difficulty. I had to remain there all the time and
> was allowed only 30 minutes every 24 hours to go out in the yard. The
> food, if such can be called that, was sugared water for breakfast and
> white rice and beans for lunch. That was all the food. Most of the
> prisoners in Canto Grande have tuberculosis," Aponte tells us .
>
>                         FACELESS COURT.
>
> "Through a loudspeaker a distorsioned voice told Napoleon Aponte to
> sit down. The room measured some 3 m x 6 m (10 ft x 20 ft) and had
> no chair or bench on which to sit, so sitting could only be done on the
> cold cement floor. This was the fearsome Military Tribunal. There the
> judge as well as the prosecutor were anonymous. It's better known as
> the "faceless court."
>
> "Facing Napoleon Aponte was a large bullet-proof mirrored glass, on
> which he could only see his own image, hiding also the faces of the
> tribunal on the other side of the one-way mirror. Behind Napoleon was
> a cement bench flanked by a symbolic defense lawyer, who was
> prohibited from uttering a single word during the whole process."
>
> The anonymous military prosecutor accused Aponte of "having caused
> damages to the nation" and of being "responsible for an attempt with
> bombs." 'Napoleon Aponte, who by now had become accustomed to
> anything, remained calm while listening to all that, but had to ask to
> himself: How can such thing about the bomb be true when I haven't
> been to Peru in 10 years?
>
> After three such meetings with the macabre "faceless court," Aponte
> was exonerated of the charge of "ambassador of terrorism" and of
> having "set off bombs." He had spent 100 days in Fujimori's inferno.
> Aponte was freed on January 20, 1995. But his drama did not end
> there. The government's counterinsurgency agents unleashed an all-out
> persecution against him. He received death threats and had to leave
> Peru again.
>
> Now he is in Sweden again and justly reclaims to be granted political
> asylum status. The case of Napoleon Aponte is an irrefutable sign of
> what is happening in Sweden, where authorities resist to abide by
> international laws protecting the right to asylum.
>
> Editors Note: This text was reproduced, with some editing, from the
> article Dick Emanuelsson published in the "Liberation" magazine of
> June 23, 1995. Passages in quotation marks and most of the text shown
> here come from the mentioned author.
>
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