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The Long Arm Of Fujimori In Hamburg;
Press Conference Follows Raid On The Home Of MRTA European
Spokesperson

     On Tuesday, May 5, 1998, police and federal authorities in
Germany raided the home of Isaac Velazco and his wife Norma in
Hamburg. Velazco is the European spokesperson for the Peruvian
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). He has lived as a
political refugee in Hamburg since 1994 and has not been back to
Peru since. According to his lawyers, German officials are trying
to build a case against him for aiding in a kidnapping. Velazco
is alleged to have taken part in the occupation by MRTA
guerrillas of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima in
December 1996. The search of Velazco's home in Hamburg lasted for
nine hours. Police copied the hard drive of Velazco's computer
and confiscated several items.
     Velazco held a press conference the day after the raid on
his home to comment about the allegations. He said the police
action did not come as a surprise to him. Since April 22nd of
this year, MRTA prisoners in Peruvian high security prisons have
been on hungerstrike. He said he fears that "the government of
President Alberto Fujimori is planning to solve the prisoner
problem by means of murder". Since December of last year, there
have been rumors of a planned violent liberation of the MRTA
prisoners from the maximum security facility in Yanamayo. But
Tupac Amaru prisoners have been transferred there against their
will for the past several months. Velazco said: "It seems that a
massacre is being planned." The European spokesperson for the
MRTA said that he sees it as his task to inform the public
opinion about the conditions in Peru's prisons. Velazco said that
by confiscating his work, police were trying to prevent him from
doing this. Velazco said: "There are no MRTA fighters living
abroad. My only task is to carry out publicity work."
     In September of last year, Hamburg's Interior Ministry, at
the urging of the Peruvian government, banned Velazco from
engaging in political activity in Germany, but a court appeal has
until now prevented this ban from going into effect yet.

(Translated from 'junge Welt' - May 7, 1998)

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