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- Peru Updates from ED-LP 11/20
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- from El Diario La Prensa 11/20
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- VIOLENCE IN PERU WILL NOT DISRUPT ELECTIONS: FUJIMORI
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- President Alberto Fujimori said the wave of violence carried
- out by left-wing guerrillas will not prevent the elections from
- taking place on Sunday, November 22. Meanwhile Joao Baena,
- Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
- and 200 members of his delegation have arrived to observe the
- elections. Some 100,000 people, including police and the
- military, will be on hand to "maintina public order" during the
- elections. Sone 11 million Puerivans are expected to go to the
- polls to elect 80 members of a Constituent Congress to replace
- the 60 senators and 180 deputies to the bicamaral Congress which
- Fujimori dissolved last April 5 in what was called a "self-coup."
- On that date Fujimori also dispensed with the Peruvian
- constitution and assumed absolute power. Some 102,000 Peruvians
- living outside the country are also expected to vote. The
- ballots include 18 lists of candidates from minor parties and
- independent groups, as well as the government's two party
- alliance, Movimiento Cambio 90-Nueva Mayoria (Change 90
- Movement-New Majority). (AP 11/20)
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- HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS CONCERNED ABOUT NEW LAWS IN PERU
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- Human rights workers in Peru are concerned that President
- Fujimor's move to eradicate the Sendero Luminoso and Tupac Amaru
- left-wing guerrilla movements is resulting in more human rights
- abuses in that country. Under the current policy any person
- accused of being a "terrorist" has no recourse to defend
- themselves.
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- A human rights lawyer was recently named as a "terrorist." The
- lawyer was out of the country at the time, and so escaped capture.
- However, a journalist, Mr. Sosa, who has denounced the Peruvian
- government's abuses, was in Peru when he was named a terrorist
- last September, and has been imprisoned in Peru since then. A
- student who escaped from capture by the Peruvian military, whose
- name was not revealed, has gashes on his face from being beaten by
- rifle butts. He said the soldiers told him to "eat your own
- blood, you're a terrorist." His brother was killed last month by
- the military. He said that he ignored the Sendero Luminoso until
- he was abducted by the soldiers. Now, he says, he is giving them
- a second look.
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- Recently 30 students have disappeared from Peruvian universities.
- The student will be smuggled out of Peru and then will apply for
- protection by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner on
- Refugees). He said he would not dare to apply to the court system
- within Peru for protection, and the UNHCR does not recognize
- internal refugees. (WNPR Radio, Week End Edition, 11/21)
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- President Alberto Fujimori took refuge in the Japanese
- embassy last week while his security forces confronted retired
- and active military leaders who were planning to overthrow
- Fujimori, according to the Peruvian magazine Caretas. Fujimori
- denied that he had hidden in the military headquarters on Friday,
- November 13, during the attempted coup, but would not say where
- he had hidden. The magazine said it had received an audio tape
- of a telephone conversation between Fujimori, a military leader
- and an intellgience official. According to Caretas the recording
- revealed the Fujimori hid in the Japanese embassy.
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- During the hours of the attempted coup, said the magazine,
- "Fujimori felt more Japanese than Peruvian." The Japanese embassy
- had no comment. (AP 11/20)
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- --translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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