From: poblachtach dearg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:31:13 +0100 (BST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Peoples war in Peru - Actions between Jan`01 and June`01 Some of the overwhelming actions of the People's War published in the reactionary media. (January 1, 2001 - June, 4 2001) January January 6, 2001. Action by the People's Liberation Army, in the morning, in Tocache province, in San Mart�n.1 January 12, 2001. Ambush by the PLA, in the village Chicr�n, Yaruscay�n district in Pasco, against two non-commissioned officers from the National Police in order to confiscate the weapons they carried.2 January 27, 2001. Confrontation between the PLA and the reactionary armed forces in the nighttime in the Bajo Pacae sector, within the jurisdiction of the Juan Jos� Crespo district, Leoncio Prado province.3 February In February 2001, the PLA intercepts a bus in the hamlet Los Olivos, located at the 24 km milestone of the Carretera Marginal highway, and annihilates a collaborator.4 February 15, 2001. PLA incursion in the hamlet El Progreso, in Chiclayo, near the border between the departments Piura and Lambayeque, in order to mobilize the masses and carry out people's trials in the area.5 On February 18, 2001, the PLA, in an overwhelming action, downs a military helicopter in the Viscat�n area, in the province Huanta (Ayacucho), annihilating a sergeant and wounding a lieutenant. The army helicopter was attacked while carrying out supply work at the Monjapata military base, located in the Apur�mac river valley. This action once more shows the successful domination of the anti-aircraft battle by the People's Liberation Army (PLA).6 On February 27, 2001, a PLA company takes the village Tambogrande (which has a population of 20.000), and carries out sabotage action such as a black-out and actions against property of collaborators, and confiscation. This PLA action was carried out in coordination with a protest by the masses, where thousands of protestors destroyed the premises of the Canadian mining company Manhattan.7 March March 1, 2001. A PLA platoon carries out a selective annihilation of two miserable ones in the small place Ramal de Aspuzana, in Progreso, Tocache province. According to Correo of Huancayo, they left handbills with the text "this is how repentant traitors who collaborate with the armed forces die" at the place of the action.8 March 2, 2001. A PLA company, with modern weapons and communication equipment, enters a village near the Sivia district in Ayacucho. The combatants organize a meeting with the inhabitants.9 On March 3, 5, 11 and 15, 2001, the PLA carries out repeated incursions in the town Aucayacu, in Hu�nuco.10, 11, 12, 13 March 5, 2001. A platoon consisting of more than 30 PLA combatants carry out an incursion and confiscate foodstuffs in the town Tribolini, in the department Apur�mac. The combatants shout slogans in favor of Chairman Gonzalo, the PCP and the People's War. After having gathered the inhabitants, the PLA calls upon the villagers to boycott the April 8 elections.14 In the beginning of March 2001, the PLA carries out confiscation of dynamite and fuse from engineering works in Chanchamayo, as a preparation for actions within the boycott against the elections.15 March 8, 2001. Confrontation between the PLA and police forces, at 5.30 p.m., in the sector Santa Ana, Las Palmas district, some 18 km. south of Huancayo.16 March 8, 2001. Confrontation between the PLA and forces from the National Office against Terrorism (Dincote) at the place Puente Dur�n, in Chinchao district, Acomayo province.17 Around March 10, 2001. In Ayacucho, a PLA company takes villages near the place Sivia. A meeting is held, where they call upon the inhabitants not to vote. The combatants carried large automatic weapons, some carried grenade-throwers and modern radio equipment.18 Also around March 10, 2001, another PLA company carries out actions calling to boycott the elections in Apur�mac.19 On March 14, 2001, at 2 a.m., a PLA company takes the village Pampa Soris, in Ayahuanco district (Huanta), during two hours. The combatants, among which there were 15 ashaninkas, gathered the villagers at the main square of the village, where they carried out a meeting with propaganda in favor of the People's War. They also confiscated twenty shotguns from the Pampa Soris "self-defense committee", in addition to foodstuffs and other products.20 March 29, 2001. PLA incursion in the village Puerto �ngel, located at the elevation by the 560 km milestone of the Carretera Marginal highway, in Jos� Crespo y Castillo district, where the combatants stayed for some 30 minutes. Four informers were annihilated.21 March 30, 2001. A platoon consisting of some 30 PLA combatants enters the enclosure Cuylpapata, in the province Concepci�n in the department Jun�n, and holds a meeting calling to boycott against the elections.22 In the end of March 2001, the PLA holds a meeting with inhabitants of Tingo Mar�a, calling to boycott against the elections.23 April In the beginning of April 2001, a PLA company carries out actions in the Ene and Tambo river valleys, forcing Ministry of Health staff to abandon the medical stations located in the said river valleys.24 During the first days of April, the PLA carries out an incursion in the small place Hatunhuasi, located in Andamarca district, in the province Concepci�n. The combatants held a meeting with the inhabitants, where slogans in favor of the People's War and for the defense of the life of Chairman Gonzalo were shouted in chorus.25 The PLA spreads leaflets along the Jorge Basadre highway and the Marginal de la Selva highway, along the route leading to the town Aucayacu and the district Tocache, the latter in the department San Mart�n.26 April 5, 2001. In the Las Rocas enclosure (located 25 kilometers from Tingo Mar�a, in the San Jos� Crespo y Castillo district), the PLA annihilates a collaborator with the reactionary armed forces.27 April 6, 2001. In the early morning hours, the PLA annihilates a criminal in Tingo Mar�a.28 On the very day of the election, a great number of actions are carried out within the boycott: April 8, 2001. The PLA carries out an action with a bomb against the office of the party Per� Posible in the city Ayacucho. The explosion destroyed part of the roof belonging to the political grouping of the presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo.29 It also carried out an action against the offices of APRA, near the main square Plaza de Armas in the same departmental capital.30 April 8, 2001. A PLA platoon during 20 minutes attacks a military base at the place Mercedes Locro, close to the Amazonas town Tingo Mar�a, 550 km northeast of Lima.31 April 8, 2001. Actions against the elections in the place Villa Rica, Oxapampa, in Pasco32; action against the voting premises in a school in Castillo Viejo, Hu�nuco33; red flags with the hammer and sickle are hoisted in the hills of Bolonga34 and Gran Chim�35 in Trujillo; the PLA enters the town Rancho Grande, in the jurisdiction of Sayapullo, Gran Chim� province36, and gathers the inhabitants. They hoist the red flag and call upon the population not to vote; similar meetings with the inhabitants of the remote villages Colpa37, El Porvenir38 and Mundo Nuevo39 in the same area, and in Villa Cruz, jurisdiction of Chacicad�n, Santiago de Chucho province40. April 8, 2001. Armed strike against the elections in Vilcashuam�n, Ayacucho.41 PLA combatants also paint slogans and the hammer and sickle along several of the streets of Vilcashuam�n. Another armed strike against the elections in the town Satipo and surrounding villages.42 April 16, 2001. PLA combatants take the town Aucayacu during one hour, and make armed agitation and propaganda against the elections and in defense of the life of Chairman Gonzalo. The policy of the PCP was spread using the local radio station, as well as with leaflets.43 April 27, 2001. Action of armed agitation and propaganda in the town Pachac�tec, in Ventanilla. A huge hammer and sickle, made out of painted rocks, 8 meters long and 6 meters wide, was set up on one of the hills of the town. During the night, slogans were also painted, and slogans in favor of the People's War shouted in chorus.44 May, until the first days of June In early May 2001. Action by a platoon consisting of some 30 PLA combatants, in the village Nechuya, located 60 kilometers from Pucallpa, near the Jorge Basadre highway.45 May 12, 2001. Selective annihilation of the mayor of the Pacapausa district, Ayacucho. The PLA combatants intercepted a minibus, annihilated the mayor and wounded two reactionaries more.46 May 13, 2001. Bomb against the premises of the military recruitment office 32-A in the town Tingo Mar�a, in the department Hu�nuco.47 May 16, 2001. In an action that rocked the country and the world, a PLA detachment placed a bomb at the National Election Board (JNE) in downtown Lima, wounding several police officers. Leaflets against the elections and in favor of the People's War and the defense of the life of Chairman Gonzalo were distributed in complementary actions.48 This action caused panic among the Peruvian reactionaries and the so-called "transition government", which, aided by the miserable rats of the rol, in vain tried to fool the people with hoaxes such as "it is not a Shining Path action". After the action against the JNE, Peruvian reaction also has had to admit to some other PLA actions carried out during the first months of 2001. The "Global Report on the Current Situation of the Terrorist Organization the Shining Path", elaborated by the Internal Order Division of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (see Caretas 1671 of May 24, 2001), mentions several actions carried out in Lima during the first months of 2001, among which specifics were given on several protests in Lima by relatives of prisoners of war49, as well as on handing out of leaflets against the elections at the University of San Marcos50, at the University of La Cantuta51, on the avenue Gamarra in La Victoria52, at a school in San Juan de Miraflores53 and at another school in Villa El Salvador54, and also handing out of leaflets against the elections in the districts San Mart�n de Porres55 and Santa Anita56. Other actions admitted by Peruvian reaction after the action against the JNE have been a series of actions of sabotage actions against mining companies. At a press conference, the chairman of the National Mining, Oil and Energy Association (SNMPE), Ricardo Brice�o Villena, admitted that the so-called "resurgence of violent actions" is dealing bureaucrat capitalism blows and, as he said, the actions "put the inversions into the sector at risk". (Correo of Lima, May 24, 2001). According to Brice�o, there were 39 attacks against mining companies in April alone, and so far this year actions have been against the mining sector in nine towns in central Peru: Pasco57, Moquegua58, Huancavelica59, Piura60,Cajamarca61, Cusco62, Ancash63, Ucayali64 and Paramonga65. Among other actions to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the People's War, is a bomb against the Military Recruitment Office in Tingo Mar�a, on May 16, 2001, blasting the main gate and breaking nearby windows. On this occasion, the PLA combatants also spread leaflets in favor of the People's War.66 On May 18, 2001, at the place Castillo Grande, Tingo Mar�a, PLA combatants hoisted the red flag with the hammer and sickle, hung several red banners and handed out leaflets with slogans in favor of the People's War and demanding the public presentation of Chairman Gonzalo. A reportage on this action, where you could see the flags, leaflets etc. of the PCP was shown on the Peruvian TV channel Panamericana Televisi�n.67 May 18, 2001. Action of armed agitation and propaganda in the small place Castillo Grande in Tingo Mar�a, in Hu�nuco. Slogans in favor of the People's War and the symbol of the hammer and sickle painted on the walls of the stadium in Cuman� and in the housing area San Sebasti�n in Huamanga. In addition, they spread leaflets.68 May 28, May 29 and June 1, 2001. The PLA carries out a series of incursions in the hamlet Pacae in the province Aucayacu, where they call to boycott against the elections and demand the public presentation of Chairman Gonzalo. On May 28 and 29, they paint slogans calling to an armed strike and on June 1 two informers were annihilated.69, 70, 71 May 30, 2001. PLA incursion in the slope from the village Tambo to San Francisco, La Mar province, in the department of Ayacucho, as part of the boycott against the elections.72 In the early morning hours on May 31, 2001, PLA combatants take a village in the border region of the jungle in the Apur�mac valley; the inhabitants were gathered in a communal house of the village, where they listened to a speech calling them not to vote.73 May 31, 2001. In a big action against the elections, a PLA battalion, with more than 200 combatants, stop more than 50 vehicles travelling along the route from Ayacucho to the inner jungle area of the upper Apur�mac river valley, at the place Totumbaro, two hours from the district San Francisco, in the province La Mar. The combatants called to an armed strike against the elections and painted PCP slogans on the vehicles.74 May 31, 2001. A PLA company with heavily armed combatants carried out actions of armed agitation and propaganda against the elections, and took two villages in Ayacucho, where they held meetings with the inhabitants and painted slogans calling to an armed strike.75 June 2-4, 2001. Armed strike against the elections in Aucayacu76, Huamanga77, La Mar78 and other provinces in Ayacucho. In La Mar, PLA combatants stopped and burnt a bus on the day of the elections. June 3, 2001. The "Ombudsman office" of the old Peruvian state reported on 21 actions to impede the elections in: Ayacucho79, Palpa80, Arequipa81, La Arena82, Ayabaca83 and Catacaos84 (Piura); Angaraes85 (Huancavelica); Iquitos86, Yurimaguas87, Hauri88 (Ancash); Lima89, Callao90 and other places. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________
