Communique #9
Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
We, the National Leadership of the MRTA, are writing to all our brothers and
sisters of the Peruvian community and other international communities:
Since electricity, water, and telephone services have been cut with the
purpose of creating confusion in the national and international
community, we declare:
1. That the MRTA has two authorized people to speak publicly for the
National Leadership: Commander Huerta, who is in charge of the operation, and
c. Isaac Velazco. Whatever Mr. Fujimori, Mr. Palermo, or any other
person in the name of our organization has to say, has no validity.
2. The operation "Oscar Torre Condesu" has the objective of freeing the
prisoners of the MRTA and those who have been falsely accused of
belonging to the subversion. We are not going to believe the promises
of Mr. Fujimori, since he does not understand the Andean culture whose
main laws are: to work, not to steal, and not to lie (Ama quella, Ama
sua, Ama Llulla). He lied when he promised not to apply the neo-liberal
"shock", which he applied 8 days after he became president.
3. We do not want false promises of improvement of the conditions of our
prisoners, when in a despotic manner he prohibits the visits to the
prisoners by their humble relatives, and physically and psychologically
abuses the prisoners, without letting the humanitarian organizations get
involved. He also threatens the prisoners' relatives by telling them
that they will move the prisoners to Callapalca, which is located at
an altitude of 5,000 meters, where it will only be possible to visit them
in private planes, which is economically impossible.
4. The censure of certain organizations are based on lies, and the
lack of proof on the part of Mr. Fujimori. This is not going to stop us
from obtaining the freedom of social fighters, who have not accumulated
material goods nor money for them or their families like Mr. Fujimori
has done. He, who has a salary of $4,000 U.S. dollars, keeps his
children in U.S. universities, which costs 40,000 U.S. dollars per
child. This money comes from the burglaries or "bad" management of the
taxes that all Peruvians pay.
5. The MRTA has publicly recognized that it is auto-subsidized by the
direct taxes that certain businesses apply to themselves. These
businesses also think that change would benefit them. We do not apply
indirect taxes that affect the poor population of our country. And
part of the taxes that we collect are divided among the poorest sectors
of our population.
6. There have been some who have refused to pay those taxes, and yes,
they have gone to one of the peoples' prisons. However, these jails are our
comrades' own houses, where they eat the same food, listen to the same
news, and are treated like human beings. There exists in some of the
tupacamarista's homes a "hole" where war goods are deposited so that they
are out of reach of the repressive forces. Also, the hole is used to serve
as a hiding place.
7. People can testify to the cordial and humane treatment that
prisoners receive in the peoples' prisons. Television recorded testimonies
by Hector Geri and Delgado Parker, who were also involved in the
distribution of food among the poorest populations of Lima, show the
humane and cordial treatment. This has not happened with government
prisoners who have been tortured for fighting against neo-liberalism and
hunger.
8. The civil society of Peru has been brought to extreme poverty, and
there exist burglaries and kidnappings that journalists from foreign
countries have been witnesses to. We are not judges to judge people
without consciousness, when there are burglars and murderers with ties
and suits that enjoy impunity. When we build a government of the
people, where everybody has a possibility to work and to live like human
beings, it will be possible for us to rescue our people from going the
wrong way.
9. This is why an improvement in nutrition, health, and voluntary work is
necessary for the dignity and the respect of social prisoners, so that
we can build a society with peace and social justice.
10. The talks have not yet entered negotiations, since there is no will
to accept the freeing of our brothers and sisters in prison.
11. It is not the objective of the MRTA to make a profit from the tax
money collected from the businesses mentioned above, that is why we
charge modest sums and do not bankrupt those companies. Still, these
companies keep covering the basic necessities of the men and women from
the Ejercito Popular Tupacamarista. We understand the difficult
situation of these companies under this irrational model.
12. The Comando Edgar Sanchez is not going to allow for the evacuation
of any prisoner, but it has allowed for them to obtain treatment inside
the residence, since any illness is a product of the lengthening of the
negotiations. All the attempts to silence our ideas point to a
non-peaceful ending to the taking of the residence. We call on the Peruvian
and international communities, and on the relatives of the political
prisoners and the embassy prisoners, to take a stronger stand against
intervention, and to stay nearby the embassy as a guarantee of
non-intervention. We also call on them not to trust the promises of Mr.
Fujimori, since he is only looking for a pretext to intervene militarily
in the residence. Now, by following certain advice, he is trying to
artificially worsen the health situation.
The People Want Them Free!
Tupac Amaru Lives, And Will Win!
National Leadership of the MRTA
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