Re: New Flag on Amnesty Int. 2/2

[lquispe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luis Quispe)]

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> [Please read Part 1/2 first]
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> I am asking Carlos to be more specific about the charges of systematic
> killing of leftists, but I would ask you a question, Luis.
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> One of your supporters in MIM said that the PCP has spray posted self-
> criticisms in Lima for killing people incorrectly. Has the PCP summed
> up any experience and acknowledged that mistakes were made?
> Not true. Although the walls are being used extensively to call
 call the masses for strikes and post simple political slogans,
 they have not being used for such purpose. The PCP is very rigorous
 and strict in practicing self-criticism, this is people's war of almost
 16 years, the Party has grown and the Base Areas are more extense. The
 documents of the PCP ["Rectification Campaign with People's War yes, and
 elections no"], and others, criticize the way some comrades in the
 countryside has acted in wiping out the landowners and thiefs based
 solely on the wishes of the masses. In other words, when you have
 the fury of thousands of peasants, many of them members of the People's
 Army, who were exploited for centuries, and suddenly they take over the
 land and capture the hated landowner: It is hard for the Party to avoid
 the people not to settle accounts with their former master. The Party
 has criticized these types of incidents based on Maoist principles that
 we must cure the patient, give the people (even the hated landlord to
 correct themselves and serve the people).

 There has been graffity in the walls of Lima done by SIN (the Peruvian
 CIA), in which the PCP allegedly "acknowledge" the crimes committed
 by the genocidal armee forces. But the people know these traps well,
 is is easy for the PCP to take over 3-4 radio stations and do the
 disclaimer. Sometimes, helicopters drop leaflets at night time in
 which the PCP calls for "peace talks" and to halt the armed struggle.
 What they have not done to slander this revolution?

> Reports suggest an abating of the armed struggle in 1994 and 1995. If sum
> setbacks occurred, how has the PCP analysed them?
> No. We compile and have extensive data on the political and military
 actions of the PCP, just yesterday Feb. 13, a PCP contingent of 150
 attacked an army garrison in the province of San Martin -according to
 figures of the Army, 15 Army officers were killed and 50 wounded]
 The PCP generally release the soldiers (a wise policy since soldiers
 are treated like animals by officers and hate to death their superiors).
 We will send a summary on the main actions of the PCP in 1994 and 1995.

> I have another question that has not yet surfaced on this l'st. It
> appears that a number of the allegations of violent actions by the PCP as
> reported by AI and other sources concern the Ashaninka ethnic peoples in
> the Amazon region. Has there been a special history of difficulty for the
> party in winning support in this region? Have any lessons been learned?
> (I believe that there were problems for the Sandanistas in winning over
> people of the eastern seaboard. It is not surprising that such problems
> occur in a war, but nor should it be overlooked.) I would appreciate
> your comments.
> No. Historically the PCP has done political work amongts the Ashinanka
  people, this base area is currently a bastion of the PCP, the Ashaninka
  youth has been incorporated massively in the People's Army, the regime
  has launched several offensives there without success. In the 60's
  and 70's the PCP was already competing politically with the US's Summer
  Institute of Linguistics and the Evangelical Church in the Ashaninka lands.
  The work of the PCP did not fall from the sky, it was done patiently and
  inteligently.  In the late 80's it become a military stronhold of the PCP,
   a People's Committee was established. The Catholic Church came in along
  the Army who bagan to set up the rondas [the paramilitary].
  Ther is when henyos crimes are committed by the Army, they burned
  completely the 5 main villages and executed several members of the Party.
  On top of that the regime accused the PCP of killing them (including
  to several authorities of the People's Committees), AI who was not there
  at all, folllowed suit. There is a coordinadora of HHRR in Lima, also
  deprived and its wings cut to verify the mass graves. But there is the
  people, only the people who know the true.

> Is Abimael Guzman still held in solitary confinement? Is his lawyer
> still under arrest? What are his conditions now?
> Yes. He is. Fujimori said last year he has 3 years to live, in total
  isolation, slandered (SIN even fabricate letters and videos) calling
  for surrender and "begging for talks", pure psychological warfare.
  An the imperialist media, including the pestilent liberal outlets
 in the US, participate in trying to demistify the myth of an great
 Communist. His lawyer is under arrest "life imprisonment" for
 having the guts of sefending Chairman Gonzalo, there is no evidence
 that he was a member of the Party. He was progressive lawyer
 member of the Democratic Lawyers (accused falsely by the regime of being a
 front of Sendero). Dr. Alfredo Crespo (lawyer of Gonzalo), is very
 sick according to his mother (78), she told me lately that she prefers
 her son die in prison for his principles than to capitulate to the
 murderous regime [apparently the regime wanted to used him to name
 who his clients were in the past.]

> Really I would ask you to consider whether you wish readers to endorse
> all aspects of your ideological approach, because some of the Maoist
> features are most unlikely to be acceptable to the great majority, or
> whether you are participating in the list to win support on a broader
> basis against the repression of the Fujimori government and its international
> backers. I would suggest the latter is a much more realistic goal.
> We do not look for endorsements. It is up to the conscience of every one
 to take a position on this issue. The enemy is 1,000 miles ahead
 from us with its lies and slanders against the People's War, but the
 true will catch them up soon.

> Luis Quispe, Editor The New Flag.
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> Chris
> London
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