From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Peru news 11 APRIL, 1992
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:18:28 GMT

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** Topic: Peru News-- Eng Summary **
** Written  8:44 pm  Apr 13, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Peru News-- Eng Summary

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RECEIVED FROM APRODEH, LIMA, DATED 11 APRIL, 1992:

*** On Saturday, April 11, Peruvian army troops entered the LIma
headquarters of the Confederacion Campesina del Peru (the Peruvian
Campesino Confederation) and arrested five people: three local
leaders from the interior of the country who were visiting Lima: a
five year old boy, the son of a local leader who was not in the
building at the time of the arrests; and the building guard.
APRODEH presented an urgent appeal about the case to the
Interamerican Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of
American States asked the body to demand the immediate release of
the five.


* On Friday, April 10, members of Peruvian Parliament detained on
April 5 were released.  The group included prominent members of
Alan Garcia's APRA party; some had been held in military bases near
Lima. According to APRODEH, "their first words were to condemn the
rupture of the democratic order and to call on all political forces
to struggle against the coup"


*Peru's leading unions and union confederations, including  the
CGTP, CTP, CTRP, construction workers, utility workers, dock
workers, CITE, and  the CUS ("an organization of transition toward
a united Peruvian Workers' Central") published a communique 
 which calls on "the people and on political and social
institutions to organize for mobilization and resistance to the
civil-military regime".

Various Peruvian organizations continued to join the list of those
who have officially protested Fujimori's "self-coup"; including the
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos , a research institute, and a group
of thirty-nine Peruvian university professors and intellectuals.

*Ex-President Alan Garcia directed a manifesto to APRA members
"calling the population to civil disobedience. . .and struggle for
the restitution of legality" in accord the right of insurgency
against "usurping" governments specified in the Peruvian
constitution.

*On Friday, the Conferencia Episcopal Peruana, the Peruvian
Catholic Bishops' Conference, published a statement  that said the
Conference "laments the breakdown of constitutional and juridical
order in our nation, the confrontation among state powers, and the
inefficiency of many of our institutions which have frustrated the
legitimate expectations of our people for so long."

The statement also expressed "hope" that democracy would be 
restored "as soon as possible"; called for respect for human
rights; and asked that "the clamor of our people for an effective
action, duly coordinated and supported, to eradicate terrorism,
drug trafficking and corruption" be "taken advantage of". 


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