The political prisoners demand their immediate transportation into another prison and the definite closure of the extermination prisons of Yanamayo and Chayapallca. These high security prisons have been built by the Fujimori dictatorship and are used against the Peruvian revolutionary movement. They are located at an altitude of more then 4,000 meters in the Peruvian Andes. Various human rights organizations, even the Interamerican Court for Human Rights, have condemned on numerous occasions the barbarism of Fujimori's penal policy and have demanded the closure of these extermination prisons. The political prisoners' second demand is the investigation of the case involving at least three MRTA militants who participated in the siege of the Japanese embassy.
All facts indicate an extra-judicial execution.
When the dictatorship of Fujimori and chief of the secret services Montesinos broke down, under the growing pressure by the popular democratic movement protesting the obvious election fraud integrating even parts of the army, the USA dropped Fujimori, who had guaranteed the dictatorial regime over the last few years. Thus, they managed to avoid the escalation of the popular protests that could have become dangerous for them. Despite the apparently democratic promises of the transitional government, the political prisoners of the guerrilla organizations and many social activists are still kept in these high security prisons. This is a worrying sign since it seems already obvious that the future political leaders of Peru intend to reduce the democratic opening by turning it into a mere publicity campaign on international scale without introducing any real changes. Thus they are negating the revolutionary opposition, which is continuing to struggle for a real change, for popular power, for a new economic system and against neo-liberal capitalism, any possibility to openly and democratically express themselves.