Homage to the 25th anniversary of the heroic resistance!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

HOMAGE TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HEROIC RESISTANCE!

Central Committee Communist Party of Perú May, 2017

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HOMAGE TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HEROIC RESISTANCE! The Communist Party of Perú pays solemn tribute to the leaders, militants and masses, 42 war prisoners of the Shining Combat Trench of Canto Grande, who, by shedding courage and heroism, 25 years ago, erected a monument to the People’s War crystallising the “Day of Heroic Resistance”; we pay especial tribute to the outstanding leaders of the Central Committee: comrades Germán, Sara, Juana and Eustaquio, who as offspring of the proletariat gave their lives to the service of the construction of socialism in Perú in its march towards Communism.

The Prison of Canto Grande was inaugurated confining the war prisoners who survived the genocide of June 1986 and the new detainees of the war, getting to house, in 1992, approximately 600 political prisoners who embracing Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo thought as the ideology of the Proletariat, led by the Communist Party of Perú and with the strength of its organisation, transformed the prison into a Shining Combat Trench, unfolding the three tasks of producing, mobilising and fighting, getting also to materialise beautiful artistic creations in theatre, music and painting.

In 1992, the people’s war in Perú advanced and thrived, having reached strategic equilibrium, and the Communist Party of Perú was striving to Build the Conquest of Power. On the other hand, the Peruvian State, with the Fujimori government, sought to annihilate the people’s war as part of its three tasks in defending its 3

obsolete system, applying its counter-insurgency war, guided in those years by the Yankee strategy of the so-called “low intensity warfare”, in addition implementing military action and repressive intelligence actions, civic actions, population control and counter-revolutionary propaganda campaigns.

Thus, since mid-1991, it mounted a new counterrevolutionary campaign against prisoners of war seeking once again in its reactionary logic: to deal blows to the weakest part, divulging in the press that in the prison of Canto Grande “the principle of authority was lost”, that it was “a school of terror” and that “the terrorists were preparing an escape”. In addition to this, repressive actions of provocation were intensified in the prison with constant searches, night police raids with shots fired on 1A and 4B prison buildings, and destruction of their belongings and artistic works. All of this was denounced by the prisoners’ relatives and lawyers before public opinion and in international organisations such as the Red Cross International Committee and the Inter-American Commission of the OAS. Once again the Peruvian State was preparing genocide in the prisons.

The genocide of 1992 was the bloody baptism of the anti-subversive Legislation emitted by the Fujimori dictatorship and which subsists to this day, despite the changes achieved through the struggle of political prisoners and their families. This genocide action began on May 6, the government, taking as pretext the transfer of prisoners, ordered the raid of combined forces of the National Police, who attacked seeking to subdue and selectively annihilate the leaders.

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They were 4 days of heroic resistance, the prisoners with strong revolutionary conviction, courage and bravery came out in defence of the revolution and their own lives; they confronted the attack of explosive charges, incendiary bombs, snipers, demolition tanks, even helicopter gunships; while outside the prison the constant force of their relatives: mothers, fathers, husbands, children and friends, the firm voice of their lawyers were denouncing this vile genocide and as always the solidary support of the people, this time that of Canto Grande who, shocked, witnessed this execrable action.

On May 9, when the resistance was over, the political prisoners who had already surrendered decided to march out of the prison building and, holding hands, singing the International Anthem, were assassinated by the murderous bullets.

Thus, the “Day of Heroic Resistance� would be engraved in the historical memory of our people, as part of the heroism displayed by thousands of men and women: peasants, industrial workers, labourers, young people from all over the country, heroes of the people whom only the people’s war, as the most transcendent revolutionary movement developed by the Peruvian people, could give rise to.

Twenty-five years have passed since the genocide in Canto Grande was perpetuated by the dictatorship of Fujimori, and we encounter our country with an ultra-right State, with a technocratic faction in the Executive and another populist faction that dominates Parliament and intends to return to the times of the dictatorship 5

with laws that deny democratic rights and freedoms of the working class and the people, such as the proposal of the law of “apology to terrorism”, which is nothing more than a fascist muzzle that we must reject. While the possibility of a presidential pardon to Fujimori is being debated today and even a “house arrest law” with a particular name attached to it is being proposed in Parliament, new trials continue to be fabricated to prevent the release of the political prisoners of the Communist Party of Perú who have finished serving their sentences long ago, staging political trials ordered by the Peruvian State as punishment and viciousness against the leaders of the Communist Party of Perú, to bury them for life in prison when 25 years ago the war had ended and they have been in prison for 25 years with life sentences; they initiate illegal police investigations to fabricate cases and put in jail leaders of popular organisations (whose participation in elections has been denied) just for claiming for the freedom of political prisoners, and the fascist threat continues for the destruction of the niches where what is left of the remains of the war prisoners, assassinated in the June 1986 genocide by García Pérez, are buried.

The social classes in power speak of reconciliation, but it is only the agreement between the two factions of the ultra-right in order to continue exploiting and oppressing the people, and to go after anyone who questions the system, as they do with those who uphold the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, Gonzalo thought. Such political blindness has no sense of country or nation. In the face of the Bicentennial of our Republic, we should encounter a country with political and economic freedom and without political prisoners.

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The best tribute to our heroes is to continue fighting alongside the people for their rights in accordance to future days to come; firmly persevering for a Political Solution, General Amnesty and National Reconciliation, fighting for the freedom of all political prisoners mainly for Chairman Gonzalo’s freedom. We reaffirm ourselves in following his luminous example of: surrendering his life for the Party and the Revolution!

HONOUR AND GLORY TO THE HEROES OF OUR PEOPLE! POLITICAL SOLUTION, GENERAL AMNISTY AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION!

May, 2017

Central Committee Communist Party of Perú

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