L'intelligence peruviano, sotto il controllo del Ministro dell'interno Juan Briones, dice nel rapporto che non esiste la scelta "uso della forza", - "The choice (of the use of force) was dropped. A peaceful resolution is possible," - e che una risoluzione pacifica della crisi e' possibile, cosi sul rapporto ottenuto dal Kyodo News.
Potrebbe essere inevitabile per il governo di dover fare nuovi processi ai rivoluzionari prigionieri, compresi i compagni dei sequestratori, e cosi alcuni verrebero liberati, continua il rapporto.
Fonti diplomatiche dicono che la polizia ha sempre obiettato pesantemente e non vuole che nessun prigioniero venga rilasciato, ma il cambio di posizione del Ministero dell'Interno, e quindi poi della polizia, fa credere che dara' mano libera a Fujimori per manovrare la crisi.
Il rapporto datato venerdi scorso richiede al governo un comitato che riveda le procedure processuali come segno che il governo e' pronto a fare concessioni alla guerriglia del Movimento Rivoluzionario Tupac Amaru. Il comitato dovrebbe cercare di tenere nuovi processi che possano accorciare il tempo di detenzione dei ribelli prigionieri, e che potrebbero portare al rilascio di alcuni di loro.
Il rapporto propone ancheche il governo permetta gli incontri tra i prigionieri del MRTA ed i loro familiari, migliori le condizioni di prigionia e permetta al commando MRTA della residenza di rifugiarsi a Cuba.
Mercoledi a lima nella residenza occupata, tre mediatori si sono incontrati per circa un'ora e mezza con il leader del commando del MRTA Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, per parlare della crisi degli ostaggi.
(Fonte: The Japan Times, Venerdi 11 aprile, 1997)
Fujimori Gets Control Of Crisis
LIMA (Kyodo) - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been given
full authority over the future course of action to settle the
nearly four-month-old hostage crisis at the Japanese ambassador's
residence in Lima, government sources said. The Cabinet reached
the decision at a Monday night meeting, the sources said.
In a meeting Tuesday with Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis
Cipriani, a key mediator in the hostage standoff, Fujimori
notified him of the Cabinet decision, the sources said. Education
Minister Domingo Palermo was also present at the meeting, which
lasted about two hours. Palermo is the Peruvian government's chief
negotiator with the guerrillas holding 72 hostages at the besieged
residence.
A senior presidential aide said the Cabinet's endorsement of
Fujimori's full authority is significant because the president
plans a possible conclusion to the hostage crisis that began Dec.
17.
Cipriani, a member of the guarantor commission mediating the
talks on the hostage crisis, later met with another commission
members, Canadian Ambassador to Peru Anthony Vincent, and
Japanese Ambassador to Mexico Terusuke Terada, head of the
Japanese task force set up in Lima to deal with the standoff.
(Source: The Japan Times, Thursday, April 10, 1997)
Peruvian Rebels Drill With Hostages
LIMA - Leftist rebels have staged drills with their 72 captives in
the Japanese ambassador's home to prepare for a possible assault
by Peruvian security forces, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Tupac
Amaru guerrilla leader Nestor Cerpa led the nighttime training
last weekend, sending hostages to rooms least vulnerable to
attack, unnamed police sources told Lima's La Republica paper.
Anti-terrorist police have reportedly installed electronic
eavesdropping equipment in a house near the mansion, which
guerrillas seized Dec. 17 during a cocktail party.
(Source: Asahi Evening News, Wednesday, April 9, 1997)
Japanese Reporters Held In Peru
LIMA - Three Japanese television reporters were freed Tuesday
following their arrest Monday near the besieged Japanese
ambassador's residence for "not carrying press credentials,"
police said. The Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd. reporters
refused to show their credentials when they were stopped
by authorities, police said. They were taken to a local police
station for "routine investigation". Further details were not
immediately available.
(Source: Asahi Evening News, Wednesday, April 9, 1997)
Peru Rebels Withdraw Compromise On Hostages
LIMA (Kyodo) - Leftist rebels holding 72 hostages at the Japanese
ambassador's residence in Lima have withdrawn a series of
compromises intended to end the 112-day standoff, leaving talks
with the government stalled, a government source said Tuesday. The
hostage takers "have reversed some of their overtures made during
preparatory talks" with the government, the source said without
elaborating on the details of the overtures in question.
In the Bolivian capital La Paz, one of the four Tupac Amaru
members imprisoned in Bolivia said Monday the release of all of
the rebels' jailed comrades is an absolute prerequisite for a
peaceful resolution to the hostage crisis. Aida Mamani Ochoa, 35,
said she has been jailed without a court ruling over a kidnaping
case involving a former Cabinet member in Bolivia in November
1995. "I was not directly involved with the abduction case. It was
planned and carried out by the (MRTA) general headquarters,"
Mamani said in an interview with Kyodo News and other news
organizations at the La Paz prison where she is being held.
Mamani, described by Bolivian authorities as the supervisor
of Tupac Amaru activities in Bolivia, said she can understand the
tension and desperation the hostages are feeling, but added that
her comrades have been given lifetime prison terms.
(Source: The Japan Times, Wednesday, April 9, 1997)
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