Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:40:27 GMT
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Subject: Antifascist Alert: Shame on Swedish Government


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>Subject: Antifascist Alert: Shame on Swedish Government
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>Hello,
>
>as you probably know, the Antifascist Web releases sometimes "Antifascist
>Alerts", focusing on an important issue.
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>Greetings,
>Jan;-)
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>> [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.
>>
>> ================================>> Translation and reproduction by
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