PERU: PRESIDENT TAKING CAUTIOUS APPROACH WITH TERRORISTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005301046
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2009
• Case Number: F-2008-01718
• Publication Date: December 19, 1996

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RESPONSIVE
APPROVED FOR
RELEASE^DATE:
31-Aug-2009
rUJIMORI APPEARS WILLING TO TRY TO END
THE TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
(MRTA) TERRORISTS HOLDING HOSTAGES AT THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR'S
RESIDENCE. IN THE PAST FUJIMORI HAS TAKEN A TOUGH BUT PRAGMATIC
APPROACH WITH TERRORISTS, //SUGGESTING HE MAY BE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE
PERSONALLY WITH THEM--A KEY MRTA DEMAND;// HIS BROTHER AND KEY
PERUVIAN OFFICIALS ARE HOSTAGES.
--// FUJIMORI PROBABLY HAS CONCLUDED THE PUBLIC WOULD HOLD THE
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR LOSS OF LIFE AS IT DID IN 1985 DURING A
TERRORIST INCIDENT THAT RESULTED IN HEAVY CASUALTIES.//
CRISIS WIT HOTIT CASUALTIES //AND MAY ACCEPT OFFERS OF OUTSIDE
ASSISTANCE
// NONETHELESS, FUJIMORI PROBABLY IS CONCERNED THAT CAVING IN TO THE
TERRORISTS' DEMANDS TO RELEASE ITS IMPRISONED MEMBERS MAY ENCOURAGE
NEW VIOLENCE THAT WOULD COST HIM POLITICAL SUPPORT.//
-- // HE MAY BE AMENABLE TO GRANTING THE GUERRILLAS' REQUEST FOR SAFE
PASSAGE TO THE COUNTRY'S INTERIOR BUT NOT TO MEETING THEIR DEMAND TO
BRING ALONG HOSTAGES
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// THE TERRORISTS MAY BE CALCULATING THAT INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE WILL
BUILD ON FUJIMORI TO ACCEDE TO SOME DEMANDS.// SOME HOSTAGES TOLD
JOURNALISTS THAT THE ATTACKERS CLAIM THEY ARE WILLING TO DIE WITH