METHODS OF PERUVIAN POLICE AGAINST APRISTAS

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. fhe Odria government's p.. lice forces have been very effective in their drive
ae,uinst ti's underground activities, principally because Alejandro Esparza
hanartu, Iiiroctor of Government, receives all the ',Loney he neees to wage the
campail7n against eFRA. 6sparze has spent huge sem of money for inforelers
(seplo_es). and to bribe and suborn Apristas who have become discouraryA with
the undereround etrueje.
2. In addition, the government has used ruthless eeasuree against the Apristas.
Source describes the following techeiques as standard and current:
a. Surprise raids are elede on the homes of Apristas. In these
raids, seerches are very through. Even furniture is broken up,
flooring is pried up, and excavations are made in gardena, in an
effort to find hidden documents or other evidence coeectel with
the party's underground work..
b. Families of Apristes are constantly harassed and threatened.
Individuals who employ memeera of AITA are pressured into di a:teeing
them.
d. Laidords. whose tenants are Apristas, are requested to evict them,
S. Apristas who are arrested are usually held incommunicado, and the following
techelques aro used to break the: down und meke them talk:
a. They are prevented from sleepine at night, being peakened at
intervals and subjected to intoreogation.
b, They are often beaten end eenhandled,
Some are placed in small, clerk cells without a bed or other
furniture. At frequent intervals a bucket of water is :loused
over the cell floor no that the prisoner con not sit on the floor
and east remain standine, for hours at a time.
d. Others are given injections of barbiturates and Anlisd food until they
sign confessions.
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4. Prisoners are sometimes suborned with offers of large sums of money and
paid travel outside the country if they will furnish the itformation
desired by the police. Others are persuaded to become government informers
and are released. .et is for this reasen that the undergroend is always
wary of Apristas suddenly released from prison.
6, Personnel of the Cuerno de Investigacionea y Vigilancia (civ) are promised
bonuses and promotions for each arrest of an important Aprista that they can
make. It is reported that the present director general of CIV, Clodomiro Marin
del Aguila, received two promotions and his present post as a result of his
effective work against the Apristos, -which was climaxed by the shooting of
Luis Negreiros Vega.
The APRA underground itself is said not to know the exact number of Apristas
now being held in jail, because new arrests are made ,almost weekly and some
releases are eflocted from time to time. According to source, however, there
are over 1000 in jail, They are lodged in various penal institutions: the central
prison in Lien, El Fronton island penitentiary, El Potao barracks of the
Guardia Civil, the Cuartel Soxto, and other pieces. Lany Apristas are also
jailed in the cities of Trujillo, Huancayo, Cuzco and Arequipa. Lost of the
women Apriste prisoners are in the Carcel de Mujeres de San thiguel.
7. APR& political prisoners are accorded muoh more severe treatment tea is
given to ordinary prisoners. lany are allowed only one visitor a month while
the ordinary prisoners can be visited twice a aeek. The Apristas are given
little and poor quality food and are not furnished with bed clothes. It is
the function of the "Social Assistance" soetion of the APAA to provide relief
ia such cases. Apristas are denied recourse to habeas-corpus proceedings and
most are being held with no specific charge ageinst them, except that they
are Apristas.
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