Andean Report by Gretchen Small

Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 23, Number 26, June 21, 1996 Andean Report by Gretchen Small BBC's 'Revive Shining Path' project be interviewer, John Simpson (BBC's Arrests of Shining Path and Japanese Red Army guerrillas in foreign affairs editor), prepared a "devastating televised report on Peru," Peru prove EIR right once again on narco-terrorism. broadcast by BBC in December 1992, which attacked, not Guzman and Shin ing Path, but those who were in the Shining Path, the terrorists who rav natives' "indigenous" celebrations. process of crushing those terrorists, aged Peru for 12 years, are coming In 1989, when Guzman's life and Peru's Armed Forces. Lord A vebury, back into vogue. Leading the way, was whereabouts were still said to be un head of the Human Rights Commis the mid-May announcement by Holly known, Shakespeare published a sion of the British Parliament, wood's John Malkovich, that he plans novel, The Vision of Elena Silves, in promptly called hearings into the Pe to produce a multimillion-dollar which the "fictitious" leader of Shin ruvian military's "human rights viola movie on Shining Path and the 1992 ing Path is envisioned to be living in tions" and "witch-hunts" against Shin capture of its chief, Abimael Guzman. Lima, sufferingfrom psoriasis, smok ing Path networks abroad. His star The script for the filmis to be based on ing imported cigarettes, and listening witness at the hearings: Simpson. a novel, The Dancer Upstairs, written to Frank Sinatra records. Now, consider the Japanese Red by a British writer and sometime Brit How did Shakespeare know such Army story. JRA leader Yoshimura ish Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) corre accurate details? "I guessed it" from was deported to Japan on June 5, to spondent, Nicholas Shakespeare. reading about another "egoist," Lenin, face charges, including those stem National law enforcement agen he told Caretas. ming from the 1974 attack. She was cies around the globe had better pay Hardly a credible story. Shakes picked up, reportedly on a tip provided attention to this one. A feature story peare bragged to Caretas that he was a by Interpol, based on interrogations of on Shakespeare, appearing in Peru's friend of another BBC correspondent, another JRA member, Yokiko Ekita, Caretas magazine of May 30, con surname Simpson, who, through arrested in Bucharest in March 1995, firms, with new, devastating detail, months of "patient work," had ar who had a false Peruvian passport. EIR's contention that British sponsor ranged an interview with Guzman in Yoshimura had been meeting with ship of international terrorism most 1992. Shakespeare worked with Simp the leadership of the still-active "Red definitely still extends to the Shining son on the interview, providing a list Path" faction, in the Upper Huallaga Path. of proposed questions for Guzman. Valley, providing money and advice Immediately following Caretas's There is no question that the BBC on the reconstruction of the Shining story, the news broke, that on May 25, interview with the fugitive killer was Path apparatus. Japanese police are Peruvian police had arrested a top Jap coordinated with the British govern said to have letters sent each year to anese Red Army terrorist, Kazuo Y0- ment. Simpson dined at the British Shining Path, for example, from JRA shimura, wanted for her role in the Embassy on Sept. 12, 1992, the night member Fusako Shigenobu, who op JRA's attack on the French Embassy before the interview was scheduled. It erates out of Lebanon. Her husband, in The Hague in 1974. Yoshimura, never occurred, only because Peruvian Junzo Okudaira, visited Yoshimura based in Lima, was working on re military and police captured Guzman frequently in Lima. building Shining Path. on that very day. Some 14 JRA members are As EIR said in its three-part series BBC was more than disappointed. thought to operate in South America, on London's "New Terror Interna On Sept. 18, 1992, after Guzman's in Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, and tional," published Oct. 13, Nov. 10, capture, BBC ran a special on Peru, Peru. The JRA is believed to operate and Nov. 17, 1995, there is nothing interviewing Peru's top liberation the out of the tri-national area near the "national" about any of the terrorist ology ideologue, Gustavo Gutierrez; Iguazu Falls (Paraguay, Brazil, and groups today afflicting the world. Peter Archard of Amnesty Interna Argentina), and, according to Caretas First, the BBC story: tional; and Britain's Shining Path "ex of June 6, it has been said that the JRA Shakespeare is the son of a former pert," Simon Strong. Their message: may have been involved in the bloody British ambassador to Peru. He lived Peru's problems didn't begin with 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli in Lima when his father was ambassa Shining Path, and Guzman's capture Mutual Association (AMIA) head dor (1984-89), preparing various films would not end them. quarters in Buenos Aires, widely for BBC on such topics as the Peruvian Deprived of his scoop, the would- blamed on the Hezbollah. EIR June 21, 1996 International 59 © 1996 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited..

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