Resolution of the Political Comission of the PCPV about the outcome of the Kidnapping of the Embassy of the Japan in PERU

This military action, in opinion of the PCPV, has involved a grave offence to every the principles and international norms of negociation and humanization of armed conflicts, because the President Alberto Fujimori has been using the credibility of organisms like the Red Cross and the Catholic Church, in addition to every the countries and personalities which integrate the so-called Comission of Guarantors, as simple elements of confusion and trick while prepared the military assault.

The PCPV want also to express its concern by the role played by the two aforementioned institutions, and its hypothetical responsability as accomplices in the massacre as far as while they conversed with the assailant Commandant a pacific outcome, the troops of the President Fujimori excavated tunnels, placed explosives and planned the assault. From now it is possible to wonder what legitimity will have the International Red Cross and the Catholic Church to mediate in some another conflict, if while they affect to work in a negotiated outcome, one of the parts is preparing the armed action ant the extermination of the opponent.

The PCPV want to point up in front of the international opinion the exquisite treatment gived by the Command to the people kept in the Embassy, treatment which has been kept until the last moment with the respect of its lifes while the assault were realized. This treatment contrast with the treatment gived by the Fujimori's Government to the prisoners jailed for life, without medical assistance and without allowing the supervision of its conditions of imprisonment by any humanitary organism.

With facts like this Latin America will hardly be able to overcome the political violence bound to the poverty and the violation of human right by its Governments.

From today, perhaps the men and women around the world which are concerned by the justice and the poverty in Latin America have to think who have to be the addressees of the term "Terrorist".