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...soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori, who was across town at a divorce hearing with his estranged wife Susana. He instantly gave the order to attack. "We knew," he said later, "that it was the moment of minimum risk...
...still a risk. The assault could have turned into a bloody disaster. But it didn't. It was a triumph--for Fujimori and for his much criticized military. Only 15 minutes after the commandos blasted and shot their way into the building, 71 of the hostages were free, all the guerrillas were dead, and only one prisoner and two soldiers had been killed (another soldier died several days later...
...Fujimori had never seen much chance of resolving the standoff peacefully. From the beginning, last Dec. 17, when the rebels seized the embassy residence during a gala cocktail reception, Cerpa had demanded the release of 400 of his comrades who were locked in Peru's harsh prisons. That, Fujimori vowed, he would never agree to. He gave the negotiations a try, if only to mask preparations for the assault. He arranged the promise of safe passage to Cuba for the rebels if they wanted it and appointed Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani as a special negotiator. After the raid...
...Peruvian government said the rebels will be buried in various locations, in unmarked graves. Lawyers representing the families charge that the government is hiding the bodies to suppress evidence that some rebels were mutilated, while others were executed when they attempted to surrender. Graphic television footage of Peruvian president Fujimori?s visit to the embassy showed what appeared to be mutilated rebel bodies; one had neither head nor arms...
LIMA: As Alberto Fujimori toured the ambassador's residence before television cameras on Wednesday, he paused for a moment over the dead body of Nestor Cerpa, lying face-up on a curved staircase in the mansion's main hall. Among the bullet holes that riddled Cerpa's body was a single one in the forehead. Having erased with finality the multiple humiliations of the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori can credibly claim to have made good on his 1995 re-election campaign vow: to squash terrorism in Peru. Asked at a Thursday press conference whether the country had seen...