PEOPLE'S WAR ADVANCES UNSTOPPABLY:
POLITICAL AND MILITARY ACTIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY OF LIBERATION
The conquest of Power throughout the country and the construction of the People's Republic of Peru are tasks carried on a daily basis by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP).
This revolutionary activity has fulfilled the great task of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought. The best children of our people have been developing heroic political and military work since 1928 [founding of the PCP] and have been continuing their work since 1980 [launching of the People's War]. The basic and essential task of leading the Peruvian people and the People's War, in order to materialize the People's Republic of Peru, is a political and military work of great responsibility. It is a heroic task in which our People's Army of Liberation (EPL), has been actively participating. The EPL is an army of a new type, in whose ranks the combatants have a superior morale and ideology than that of the reactionaries, and are ready to give up their lives for the Party and the revolution.
In the context of conquering Power countrywide and of building the People's Republic of Peru, the old and rotten reactionary State has attempted -in vain- to celebrate its 175th Anniversary, of the " supposed" independence of Peru (July 28th.), with chauvinist festivities full of demagoguery and repression.
In an environment that was seemingly calm, there were thousands and thousands of myrmidons in a state of alert. A presidential speech was delivered, in which once again, the child-killer Fujimori announced the complete reactionarization of the obsolete official system, and more reactionary measures.
STRUGGLE OF PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATIONS
All of that happened in the midst of vibrant battle cries by the people's organizations. Their
daily militant actions in the streets of Lima, and in the other cities in the interior, sharpen the
class struggle in our country. This a class struggle which expresses itself powerfully through the
vibrant and victorious " People's War," led by the heroic PCP, our political vanguard.
DEMOLISHING CAR BOMBS IN LIMA
In the early morning hours on July 26, a car-bomb exploded at the headquarters of the
Peruvian National Police (PNP) storm troopers unit, on the first block of Abancay Avenue in
Lima, just a few meters from Congress. This was the place where the genocidal puppet
Fujimori delivered his reactionary speech two days later.
A second car bomb that was activated and detonated much like the first one, exploded in the San Borja residential district, shaking up the Director of DINCOTE [the so-called counter terrorist police--TNF] in broad daylight, in the midst of the chauvinistic celebrations. A few days later, in the department of Apurimac, a demolishing EPL raid the facilities of a construction company allied to the reactionary government. It destroyed and seized machinery, equipment, and supplies.
THE TAKE OVER OF THE CITY OF AUCAYACU
To further pull the hairs of the reactionaries, who still haven't recovered from the car
bomb explosions in Lima during the July celebrities of reaction in the evening of August 2, and as part of the intense political-military campaign, the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) led by the PCP took over the town of Aucayacu in the Upper Huallaga Valley.
The actions of the Party as part of a well-established political-military plan have been gaining strength. A contingent of the EPL mobilized the organized peasant masses of the region to take the town of Aucayacu (Tingo María-Huanuco) for several hours. The Maoists then carried out a people's assembly in the central plaza of the town, where a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought speech was given and the local population chanted: Long Live the Communist Party of Peru, the People's War and the People's Army. People were called on to join the armed struggle, organized by the vanguard, the Communist Party of Peru. In addition, the Maoists urged the local population to beware of the " psychological operations" that the reactionaries use to confuse them [e.g., hoaxes such as "Guzman pleads for peace," "two-line struggle on peace talks in the PCP," etc.] The enemy tries to confuse them so that they'll use them as a cannon fodder against the People's War.
In order to carry this out, the political and military leaders deployed several contingents both inside and outside the town. Many dozens of heavily armed guerrillas blocked the main roads into Aucayacu in a synchronized fashion, stopping the traffic on the highway to Tocache and Tingo Marˇa for several hours. Meanwhile, several groups of Communists seized resources useful for the guerrilla war. At the same time, 30 henchmen of the National Police of Peru were overpowered in their own office and the walls and walkways were painted with slogans which later were shown to the world on television: "Overcome the Bend in the Road" and "Develop the People's War."
In this way, more than 4,000 inhabitants of Aucayacu witnessed once again the effective movements of the members of the People's Liberation Army. The members of the EPL have been working in this part of the jungle, and serving the construction of the new power for more than 16 years.
According to the residents themselves, ( a common version in these parts) the Maoist guerrillas were armed with modern sophisticated weaponry. These were weapons captured from the reactionary armed forces in the course of this war.
At this time when the revolution is presented with unprecedented perspectives, we must sharpen our revolutionary actions and intensify our political and military preparedness, to take advantage of the opportunities presented to us in the best possible manner. Thus, we will serve the best interests of the class, and conquer the most advanced positions for the world proletarian revolution.
The existence of the International Communist Movement and the Maoist parties regrouped in it provide a powerful base to achieve this objective, and we must achieve it. In particular, the communists must carry the weapon of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the millions of oppressed masses. They persevere the stern struggle against all shades of revisionism, new or old, form Maoist parties wherever these do not exist, and strengthen the existing ones, so as to prepare, launch and develop People's Wars to destroy imperialism and reaction forever, and advance to glorious Communism.
In this perspective, in February 1996, the People's War in Nepal began. In that same perspective we must take the People's War in Peru to victory. This is the People's War that is achieving new victorious laurels, already overcoming the bend in the road [1996, TNF] and continuing to work hard in the development of the People's War, with the great task of building the People's Republic of Peru.
In spite of all the mud thrown against our revolution, and all the fabrications staged against our Party, and our ideology, we are called to overcome the bend, and now more than ever. It is the reactionaries themselves who admit that we are right. For example, the statements of the nonsensical, opportunist and revisionist Carlos Tapia on the TV program "Contrapunto" of August 28, 1996, when Tapia pointed out two theses that have been thoroughly discredited by practice, about the PCP actions "just being desperate lashes by the drowning." "A terrorist organization lashes out like a drowning man," says Senderologist Tapia, "when its actions are on the decline, but nowadays, the actions of Sendero Luminoso are not declining but ASCENDING. Lately, there are signals that the Communist Party of Peru . . . already there is an organization coordinating the terrorist activity."
POLITICAL AND MILITARY ACTIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY OF LIBERATION.
MARCH
LIMA, ATE VITARTE, HUAYCÁN: Combatants of the People's Army of Liberation (initials in Spanish EPL), annihilated with two bullets and then dynamite the body of the instigator of repression, and organizer of urban rondas in Huaycán, Pascuala Rosado. [TNF: urban rondas are paramilitary death squads organized by the reactionary Armed Forces of Fujimori. Rosado was in the government's witness protection program and hid in Chile under the sponsorship of Pinochet's Army for two years].
LIMA, CANTO GRANDE: On March 10, a devastating attack by the People's Army (EPL) against the Edolear company. This is a bureaucratic capitalist company that exploits the people. In another action on March 15, in the Huascar young town, a column of EPL confiscated an FAL automatic gun, and ammunition from a soldier at the "Three Crosses" Battalion. On March 17, members of the EPL attacked the Vito S.A. gasoline storage and pumping center and instilled fear into the bourgeoisie (TNF: this imperialist franchise of Shell-Mobil has repeatedly abused and fired its workers and refused to pay them social benefits.)
LIMA, SAN JUAN DE LURIGANCHO: On March 11, a massive and simultaneous distribution of leaflets in support of the revolution was carried by the People's Army in several shopping centers and districts of the capital.
AYACUCHO, LA MAR, SAN MIGUEL. On March 15, in the District of Huahuasana, a column of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) ambushed a reactionary army patrol, annihilating a captain and causing several soldiers of the enemy to be wounded. In another action in the District of Vista Alegre, the area known as Machete, a column of the EPL ambushed a military patrol, killing two soldiers and leaving more than half a dozen wounded.
AYACUCHO, TACRAPUNTA, HUAYTARA: On March 28, a column of the EPL blocked Los Libertadores Highway (the only highway connecting and Ayacucho) and carried out agitation and propaganda in support of the armed struggle among the passengers of intercity buses.
JUNÍN, TARMA (Central Peru). On March 25, in the District of Acobamba, columns of the EPL took over towns and organized massive rallies in support of the People's War.
TRUJILLO, TAYABAMBA: (Northern Peru) On March 20, a column of the EPL took over the Gicomsa Mining Center and confiscated large amounts of dynamite and fuses. A local profiteer was executed as well.
HUANCAYO, CHANCHAMAYO: On March 25, in the District of San Luis of Chuaro, a column of the EPL confiscated weapons and wounded five reactionary black heads or ronderos (paramilitary forces).
APRIL
ANCASH, HUARAZ (Northern Peru): On April 5, members of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) posted
red flags in the main streets of the city. One member of UDEX [Explosive unit of police--TNF]
who attempted to bring down a flag was blown to pieces in mid air.
TINGO MARÍ A, PROVINCE OF LEONCIO PRADO. On April 8, in the District of Padre Felipe Luyando, a contingent of the EPL, intercepted the vehicle of Julio del Castillo Rodriguez, President of the notorious Army run self-defense committee, head of the paramilitary rondas in the area, who was annihilated while patrolling in his vehicle. This hated death squad leader was annihilated with four bullets.
ANCASH, HUARAZ. On April 13, in the locality of Uco on the border of the Departments of Ancash and Huanuco, nine members of the Huanuco counterinsurgency battalion deserted and joined up the ranks of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL), bringing with them several FAL military rifles, thousands of sticks of dynamite, and a large quantity of ammunition and other military supplies.
AYACUCHO, LA MAR PROVINCE (Southern Peru): On April 18, in the district of Anco, a contingent of more 60 combatants of the People's Army (EPL) took over the town of Anchihuay, annihilating four paramilitary forces (a.k.a. Army's committee of civil defense, black heads or mesnadas) and wounding nine.
AYACUCHO, HUANTA. On April 19 in various ambushes and clashes with the reactionary armed forces in Irquis and the Canyon of Cotonia, one officer, and one soldier were annihilated in combat along with two paramilitary forces, and many more were also wounded in the enemy ranks.
JUNÍN, SATIPO. On April 22 in the Ene Valley, a column of the People's Army attacked the military base in the Esmeralda Valley, executing in combat eight miserable butchers of the reactionary armed forces, and leaving eight others wounded.
HUANCAYO (Central Peru): On April 23, a contingent of the People's Army attacked the Jos‚ Huertas Torres military base; in a subsequent action one rondero (paramilitary) was executed in combat.
PIURA, HUANCABAMBA (Northen border near Ecuador):On April 29, a contingent of the People's Army blocked the highway at the height of the locality known as "Indian neck," burning a bus belonging to the company "Civa." [This company was used by the military to transport troops. The action was a little warning by the EPL-- TNF]
MAY
LIMA, VILLA EL SALVADOR: A miserable myrmidon who had infiltrated the Party and has managed to become responsible for logistics in the southern cone (area) of Lima was annihilated by the masses, when it became known that he was an infiltrator whose mission was to sabotage the People's War. His public capitulation in the bogus "Diario" published by the intelligence services (SIN) exposed his treacherous activities [TNF: this fake "Diario" tailored by SIN and CIA, is the publication that falsely claimed that there was a "two line struggle on peace talks in the ranks of the PCP" and has published the hoax "peace letters of Abimael Guzman," which is used by the Yankee opportunists and revisionists of RCP-USA and Co-RIM to split the international support to the People's War in Peru.]
AYACUCHO, LA MAR. On May 8, an encirclement and annihilation campaign launched by the reactionary armed forces in Huanta, resulted in genocide and disappearances perpetrated against the unarmed civilian population.
LIMA, SAN ISIDRO: On May 16, a column of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) set off a car bomb at the Shell Oil corporation's headquarters, completely demolishing the building as well as five tankers. This is a Yankee imperialist company that came to sink its claws into our natural resources.
LIMA. On May 17, in synchronized operations, members of the People's Army hoisted red flags and posted them conspicuously along the Central Highway, Plaza de la Bandera, Comas, Canto Grande, San Juan de Lugirancho, and other places of the capital, to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the initiation of the armed struggle (ILA-80), the strategic equilibrium and the new Power.
JUNE
HUACHO. On June 18, in the locality of Oyon, 5 km. east of Huacho, the People's Army (EPL) executed a murderer in combat from the National Police in the stands of a stadium.
TINGO MARÍA: On June 22, the main force of the EPL ambushed the reactionary forces, eliminating seven elite members of the enemy forces. In Huanuco, Leoncio Prado, locality of Marona, members of the Base Forces of the EPL entered the community and carried out demonstrations and propaganda in support of the Armed Struggle.
ALTO HUALLAGA, SAN MARTÍN, TOCACHE. On June 23, in the locality of Nuevo Progreso, fighters of the Main Force of the People's Army exercised the New Power all along the Marginal Highway [the only highway connecting to the jungle area in Peru--TNF]. They also carried out propaganda in support of the Armed Struggle, and vehicles were painted with the red color of the worker-peasant alliance. Applying the military strategies of President Mao, they retreated orderly to their Support Bases. All the reactionaries could do was to witness the presence of the women fighters among the revolutionary forces.
ALTO HUALLAGA, TOCACHE. On June 24, an ambush carried out by the EPL against the joint forces of mesnadas (rondas) and the genocidal armed forces, was reported. One soldier and one paramilitary black head (rondas) were killed in combat.
JULY
SAN MARTÍN, TOCACHE, POLVORA DISTRICT. On July 2, in the locality of Santa Rosa, members of the People's Army ambushed the reactionary army and there were several casualties in the ranks of the enemy. In a subsequent action, three representatives of the old State were annihilated. That's the way the New Power is being defended.
LIMA, SAN MARTÍN DE PORRES: On July 3, members of the EPL blew up the offices of the hated Edelnor Company.
TINGO MARÍA, LAS VEGAS: On July 18, the People's Army took over the city, and the entire population joyfully greeted the Maoist combatants. They held a six-hour meeting with the population, organizing open and closed People's Committees. This is a way of destroying the old state and building the new power.
LIMA: On July 26, the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) shook the center of Lima, just two blocks from the reactionary Congress and seven blocks from the Government Palace. The action was carried out against the 22nd division of the Peruvian National Police, headquarters of the genocidal assault battalion, where one miserable butcher was eliminated and four others were wounded. The police headquarters was also destroyed. This action proves what President Gonzalo emphasized in his speech on September 24, 1992: "They are dreaming if they think they will defeat us, so let them keep on dreaming." On the morning of July 26, 1996 the murderer Fujimori's dream turned into a nightmare.
LIMA. On July 29, the People's Army of Liberation demolished the house of the hated assassin Manuel Valera Gamarra [General of the armed forces], responsible for the counterinsurgency war in the Upper Huallaga. This action reminded this genocidal of the blood debt he has with the people for firing rockets, and strafing gun fire from helicopters on the base areas. This action not only stunned the murderous high military command, but their imperialist masters as well.
In another action in Lima, San Juan de Miraflores, activists from the People's Army of Liberation raised the red banner of National Liberation, and posted it in several locations.
In Los Olivos District, on July 30, young town of San Martˇn de Porres: The People's Army executed a cowardly snitch who usurped the leadership of the masses, while informing the enemy about the mass organizations generated by the people in the midst of the powerful People's War. Epitafio Santa Marˇa Rodriguez paid dearly the blood debt he had with the Party.
HUANCAVELICA, PALCA (Southern Peru): Three encampments (bases) of the Hillconsa company, were taken over by the EPL, destroying the enemy plan to gain an outpost in a territory of base areas. The combined forces were made up of 30 combatants.
AUGUST
MORE ON THE TAKE OVER OF THE CITY OF AUCAYACU!
In order to carry this out, the political and military leaders deployed a number of contingents both inside and outside the town. Many dozens of heavily armed guerrillas blocked the main roads into Aucayacu in a synchronized fashion, stopping the traffic on the highway to Tocache and Tingo María for several hours. Meanwhile, several groups of Communists seized resources useful for the guerrilla war. At the same time, 30 henchmen of the National Police of Peru were overpowered in their own office and the walls and walkways were painted with slogans which later were shown to the world on television: "Overcome the Bend in the Road" and "Develop the People's War."
In this way, the more than 4,000 inhabitants of Aucayacu witnessed once again the effective movements of the members of the People's Liberation Army, who have been working in this part of the jungle, serving the construction of the new power for more than 16 years
TRUJILLO: On August 6, members of the People's Army annihilated Luis Bustamante Tuesta, a murderer of the National Police who had a blood debt with the people [In the city of Trujillo there have been murders committed against unarmed people by "Grupo Colina," the death squad of Fujimori- all these killers are being chased by the PCP--TNF.]
LA LIBERTAD, BOLIVAR, PATAZ: On August 6, in the city of Tayabamba, members of the base force of the People's Army took over the town and smashed the police station, wounding two miserable soldiers of Fujimori, and carried out propaganda activities in support of the Armed Struggle.
AYACUCHO, HUANTA, AYAHUANCO, HUARCATAN (Southern Peru). The local force of the People's Army took over the town annihilating two black heads, who served reaction by pushing the masses as cannon fodder against the People's War. The organized masses of this support base collaborated in propaganda and political agitation work for the Armed Struggle.
HUANCAYO, SATIPO, VALLE ESMERALDA, SELVA VIRGEN (Central Peru): In these localities several clashes were reported between members of the People's Army (EPL) and the ronderos. One black head of the reactionary armed forces was annihilated.
CHIMBOTE, MALAGA SANTOLAYO (Northern Peru): On August 7, members of the EPL took over the town of Consuzo and organized the masses while carrying out propaganda in support of the Armed Struggle.
LIMA, EL AGUSTINO: Members of the People's Army placed a booby trap near the imperialist corporation "Celular 2000." A member of the National Police was wounded while attempting to deactivate it.
AYACUCHO, HUANTA. On August 18, between the Mantaro and Ene Rivers, the main force of the People's Army attacked the counterinsurgency base at Soldamiento, killing three soldiers and wounding several more.
TINGO MAR A: On August 20, the Main Force of the People's Army simultaneously took over the villages of Jos‚ Bernardo Alcedo, Jos‚ Marˇa Ugarteche, Rˇo Azul, Mesones Muro, Margarita and a sector of the District capital Herminio Valdizan. Later on, in the morning of Wednesday August 21, more than 100 fighters took over the village of Las Delicias, eliminating the counterrevolutionary Celso Estela Perez. Transit was shut down on the Federico Basadre Highway to Aguaytia and Pucallpa. Massive demonstrations and propaganda for the Armed Struggle was done, and more than 100 vehicles were stopped and painted with the hammer and sickle. The revolutionary fighters asserted that the Red Army is preparing to take over military posts and bases from the enemy.
LIMA, SAN JUAN DE LURIGANCHO: On August 23, members of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) executed Italo Ochoa Yauripaita, a landlord from Chanchamayo, Junin, for persisting in his exploitation of the peasantry and refusing to cooperate with the New State.
LIMA. On August 27, a murderer of the National Police was killed and another wounded as a result of a clash with members of the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) on Trapicha Avenue.
AYACUCHO. On August 29, a group from the People's Army confiscated food and other supplies from five [military] vehicles traveling to the Ayacucho Jungle.
SEPTEMBER
[Editor: Photos showing a group of Generals of the reactionary armed forces, under caption of: "Fearful Genocidal: Brave to Kill, Cowardly to Die . . . Observe with fear the PCP activity]
ALL OF THIS SHAKES UP THE WORLD'S COP
The agreements reached in that conference set the conditions in which they will confront the world proletarian revolution. This is a world ruled by the bureaucratic landlord States, where the conditions continue to polarize class struggle, prompting revolutionary violence. In order to combat us they violate their own laws and agreements, such as in Panama, where they maintain and use military bases, and furthermore, use them as training centers for the counterinsurgency wars elsewhere; as well as the establishment of military bases on the Peruvian-Colombian border, and the ones now being built on the Peruvian-Brazilian border. What is imperialism trying to do? Is it that they see the Conquest of Power as inevitable by the Peruvian proletariat and the establishment of the People's Republic of Peru?
What the imperialists are trying to do is to halt the great wave of the World Proletarian Revolution, and what we must do, is get ready to fight imperialism and demolish it. We must do what the heroic people of Vietnam did, and as our heroic people of Peru have been doing for more than 16 years, and as other people in the world are now doing (e.g., Revolution in Nepal). The struggle must go all the way until we reach Communism.
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