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...LIMA: Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is no longer the invisible man in the country's three-week old hostage crisis. After keeping a low profile for the past few weeks, Fujimori Tuesday toured a poor Lima neighborhood and visited a maximum security prison where a number of Tupac Amaru rebels are held. The appearances are designed to show that in spite of the crisis, the business of state goes on. Fujimori is preparing for an important visit next week from Ecuador's president, Abdala Bucaram. The two countries have long been involved in a bitter border war and the visit...
LIMA, Peru: As the slow lock-step process of negotiating an end to the three-week old hostage crisis continued, Peruvian rebels released two more hostages Tuesday afternoon and renewed their demands that their jailed comrades be released. Their statements were shouted to TV journalists, who for the first time had been allowed to enter the Japanese ambassador's residence, where 81 people are still being held captive. Released were Honduran Ambassador Eduardo Martel and Argentine Consul Juan Antonio Ibanez. "Any harm to (the hostages) will be the exclusive responsibility of the government of (President Alberto) Fujimori if he decides...
...hole was blown in a retaining wall from an adjoining house, hand grenades were thrown at the embassy guardhouse and about 25 rebels belonging to a group known as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement stormed into the compound. As the insurgents engaged police in a ferocious gun battle, everyone--Peruvian ministers, blue-chip business tycoons, assembled diplomats and their wives--dropped to the ground. "Don't lift your head," the rebels barked, "or it'll be shot...
Tupac Amaru has always been something of a poor cousin to Peru's most infamous terrorist group, the Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which nearly succeeded in its violent bid to topple the Peruvian state in the early 1990s. Smaller than its notorious rival, Tupac Amaru drew inspiration not from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua...
...that may be a prolonged period. When the initial fireworks subsided, a more grinding routine ensued as an exhausted Red Cross mediator shuffled between embassy and presidential palace, conveying requests for toothbrushes and toilet paper. Batches of hostages were released, but the impasse remained unbroken. Meanwhile, the Peruvian government withdrew behind an official wall of silence, and Fujimori wrestled with conflicting advice from his two most important allies: Japan pressed for negotiation, and the U.S. counseled him not to cut any deals. A team of Delta Force commandos, who specialize in hostage rescues, was on standby in Lima...