Communique #5
Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
Central Jungle - January 8, 1997
The National Leadership of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary
Movement: PROTEST of the ARBITRARY DETENTION of the JOURNALIST
HITOMI YSUYOSHI and the TRANSLATOR VICTOR BORJA:
We protest the arbitrary dentention of the journalist Hitomi
Ysuyoshi and his translator Victor Borja, since that is not a
policy that befits the hospitality and openness of our people.
The MRTA, as part of the Peruvian people, is an organization open
to dialogue with the people, with the religious, political, and
trade-union organizations.
We affirm our solidarity with the international press and
assure it that this kind of arbitrary act will not occur in a new
society wherein the civil society, with the participation of all
the men and women who make up the core of Peru, with its
communities of the countryside and of the jungle, people's
kitchens, neighborhood committees, and unions in general will be
those who, in a National Assembly, will decide the destinies of the
country. Not with tanks and guns, which we will convert into
tractors and museum pieces.
Journalists! You are getting to know the face of
authoritarianism, of dictatorship. You will be able to understand
even better what people have experienced in Peru for all these years.
Brothers and sisters of Peru, we are heading towards PEACE WITH
SOCIAL JUSTICE and FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, FOR FREEDOM FOR ALL
THE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
TUPAC AMARU IS FREEDOM!!
National Leadership of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
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