The New Flag Magazine
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This is like the story of the Yankee movie"The Lion King." Once upon a time, the King called all the animals of the Earth (including the oriental snake) to attend a world conference on "obedience" and "imitation." In capitalist terms, it would be the conference on "globalization" and "reinsertion." After the conference, the snake quickly learned and applied to the letter the instructions of his master, and silently crawled on coasts, hills, and jungles so that everything he bit was poisoned leaving thousands of people in misery. But not for long, he was caught and beheaded by an Andean peasant armed with the PCP sickle and hammer. Let's explain these events in four acts.ACT 1. Lima, July 1991. At "Palacio Pizarro," accompanied by the money bags of imperialism Enrique Iglesias (International Development Bank) and Michel Candemsus (IMF), Fujimori boasted: "In a few years the economy of this country will be like Japan's, a real Latin American Tiger," and added "I will create no less than one million jobs," (revised in May 30, 1998 to no less than 100,000 jobs per year.) Today, the Asian Tigers (South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and others) are toothless and bankrupt. Japan is facing a serious economic crisis and has no more crumbs left for its genocidal beggar Fujimori, China has huge unemployment and hunger is becoming widespread. And instead of jobs, in eight years of the regime, millions of Peruvians are being thrown out of their jobs to the lines of unemployment and underemployment.
ACT 2. United Nations, New York, August 1993. Before the world's heads of government, Fujimori proclaimed: "The communist subversion in Peru... the terrorism of Sendero Luminoso, will be annihilated by July 28, 1995." The two-year time frame to defeat the People's War was not a spontaneous babbling of the dictator, but he was textually repeating the counterinsurgency plan drafted by the Yankee Pentagon at the time of the military coup in 1992: Two years to wipe out the Communist subversion and 20 years to make viable bureaucratic capitalism. Well, we are in 1998 and the invincible revolution led by the PCP continues its strategic goal of seizing power countrywide. And the economy? It is less growth and more death.
ACT 3. New York, June 1998. In his speech at the Hilton Hotel, lackey Fujimori repeated the TV ad of Wall Street, "invest today...and enjoy tomorrow." He said that some people in Perú are supposedly getting rich with the micro-credits and handouts of imperialism (these may be his cronies and relatives). But he added, "with my economic policies, most of the Peruvian people are sacrificing today for a better tomorrow." Our grandparents have heard the same tale from their exploiters and sacrificed themselves from cradle to grave for nothing. Then and today, while imperialist corporations have been maximizing their profits, hunger and misery have continued for the people. The future of our people cannot be designed by any imperialist power nor its native lackeys, but by the people themselves. The people's plan is already in motion in Peru: It's been successfully implemented since May 1980 with the launching of the People's War (ILA-80), which will culminate with the installation of the Republic of New Democracy, the new economy, new culture, and a new society.
ACT 4. Japan, June 1998. Planning for more genocide in Peruvian prisons. While begging his Japanese masters for a loan of 100 million dollars, Fujimori visited the jail of Fuchu in Tokyo to "learn about Japan's great prison system in order to apply it in Perú." That will be like changing the current Peruvian concentration camps -a Nazi's Auschwitz prison system for the Nanking prison system of the Japanese fascists in China (1937.) Thus, a genocidal prison system will be replaced for another genocidal system. We must not forget the torture and genocide of political prisoners in the concentration camps of El Fronton (300 POWs murdered in 1986) Cantogrande (100 political prisoners executed in 1992), Lurigancho (40 political prisoners burned to death in1992), massacres in the prisons of Santa Monica, Yanamayo, Cachiche, the massacres of Accormarca, Cayara, Barrios Altos, La Cantuta, Uchuraccay, Huanta, etc., which account for more than 30,000 Peruvians assassinated by the genocidal armed forces and police, funded and trained by imperialism, mainly, Yankee imperialism. These crimes against humanity have been covered up by the outlets of imperialism, including its organizations like the UN and OAS. The culprits will be tried and punished only by the people, after the triumph of the People's War.
Nazi war criminals were tried in Nuremberg, Japanese war criminals were tried in Tokyo, and Peruvian murderers and their imperialist puppeteers (mastermind of genocides) will be tried and justly punished in Perú. The people's justice will even reach the war criminals who will try to run abroad (Garcia Perez- France, Fujimori-Japan, Montesinos and Hermoza-USA, Valle Riestra...). They can run but they can't hide forever.
Imperialist Globalization and Third World Servility. The prisons in the imperialist countries are also concentration camps. In the United States, for example, there are 1.5 million prisoners (1998), many of them are political prisoners from oppressed nationalities (Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, American Indians, blacks and poor whites). These jails are the human warehouses for the unemployed and poor who have become a source of cheap labor for major corporations. (See a recent 1998 UN Report on US prisons).
The Japanese prisons are not better. Their policy of "obedience" and "total control" of chained humans is based on psychological and physical torture. The prisoners provide high tech slave labor to major Japanese corporations. They are kept in virtual isolation - putting recalcitrant political prisoners in tiger cages, and murders and suicides of inmates are kept in strict secrecy. History teaches us how cruel the Japanese concentrations camps are, for example in Nanking: "Tens of thousands of young men were rounded up...mowed down by machine guns, used for bayonet practice, or soaked with gasoline and burned alive. By the end of the massacre an estimated 260,000 to 350,000 people have been killed. Between 20,000 and 80,000 women were raped -and many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. So brutal were the Japanese in Nanking that even the Nazis in the city were shocked." ("The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang, Harper Collins,1997.) Is that what snake Fujimori trying to imitate?
In Perú, there are 24, 408 prisoners (1997) from which 70.8% of the prisoners were never tried, and about 10,000 are imprisoned for political reasons (mostly accused of being sympathizers and members of the Communist Party of Perú). Only 23.5% of the total are for drug trafficking and common crimes, and the "crimes" of 17% of prisoners are virtually unknown (there are thousands of peasants who do not speak nor write Spanish) [INE 1998].
How about the "respect for human rights" by the police in imperialist countries? This is important because they have agreements (e.g., funding of projects and training) with their Peruvian counterparts. A few examples will expose their hypocrisy of " human rights:"
Abner Louima , a Haitian immigrant in Brooklyn, New York was severely beaten, sodomized with a toilet plunger, swallowed his teeth, after being brutally beaten by a group of racist policemen. He was then hospitalized. Anthony Baez was choked to death for no reason, by a maniac policeman in front of his home in the Bronx, New York, etc. These actions are being encouraged by the fascist Mayor of NY (an ugly immitator of Benito Mussolini) where the cops are in the business of brutalizing poor people with impunity. Ezequiel Hernandez was killed on the US-Mexican border by US Marines, while tending to his goats! And last spring, a Chinese American man was fatally shot, killed in his own driveway, while his wife and child watched this tragedy, etc. Even Human Rights Watch/America's (an anti-PCP HHRR Branch of Yankee imperialism has acknowledged this in its latest July 1998 Report.)
In imperialist countries (USA, Japan, Germany, France, China and others), police brutality is a manifestation of the racist institutions such as the criminal justice system that discriminate the poor and third world nationalities. The rulers talk and talk about "due process" and babble that prisoners are considered "innocent" until proven guilty. But racist courts and judges generally spend a few minutes to imprison people if they happen to be poor, black, immigrants or natives from oppressed nationalities. How about drug addiction? The U.S. is the biggest market in the world for illegal drugs. One of three people of its total population (270 million) older than 12 years of age, has used narcotics at one point in their lives. Even Clinton has admitted to have "inhaled" drugs and enjoyed Monica's "blow jobs" (considering that he lies not only on drugs and sex matters). The putrescent character of Yankee imperialism is reflected by its own statistics: more than 13 million of U.S. citizens consume narcotics (mainly cocaine and derivatives), and 4.1 million of them are chronic addicts. The approximate expenditures in drug consumption is 57 billion dollars per year! Is that what the snake Fujimori wants to imitate from his Yankee masters?
In sum, torture, death and slave labor in the jails of imperialist countries are being "globalized," and their best customers are the Latin American fascist dictators, such as the genocidal and country seller Kenyo Fujimori.