Posted on 01/14/2004 4:56:54 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
"What's the president's name?"
"I don't know."
"Do you know what Peru is?"
"No."
These were the surprising answers of a native Ashaninka released by the Peruvian police from the remnants of the guerrilla group Shining Path in the country's central jungle.
All of those rescued, scores of children as well as adults and elderly, displayed severe symptoms of malnutrition, infections and parasitic infections due to the peripatetic and inhumane treatment during years in the heights of the Vilcabamba mountain range and deep in the rainforest. The police also retrieved hundreds of natives that were hiding from the "Senderistas," having left their land when their leaders were assassinated 17 years ago.
The rescued Ashaninkas, one of the poorest ethnic groups of Peru, received tent fabric for shelter, axes, machetes, poles and clothing, boxes of tuna, salt, pasta, rice, sugar, beans and laundry soap as well as cooking oil and biscuits. A boy was astonished with a Coca-Cola given to him by a police officer, recalling the successful Australian film of the 1980s, "The Gods Must Be Crazy."
The dire social situation of the released Ashaninka population has prompted the formation of a private and state institution multi-sectorial committee to try to find an immediate solution to their plight. The committee includes the municipalities of the jungle areas, civil defense, the National Institute of Natural Resources, the ministries of Health and Agriculture, Caritas (a Catholic Church social organization), the International Committee of the Red Cross, the German Service of Technical Social Cooperation, the Japanese Embassy and the Amazonian Center of Anthropology and Practical Application, among others.
The recent Final Report of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation concluded that at least 6,000 Ashaninkas have died because of terrorist violence over the last several decades.
Using information from Ashaninka families and patrols, as well as from members of the Direction Against Terrorism, known as Dircote, authorities equipped with satellite telephones used helicopters to land reinforcements to track and defeat the militants. It was during one of the missions that the authorities uncovered the Ashaninka's plight of slavery; many of them fled and led a fugitive existence, eating grass and sleeping in the open to elude the extremists who wanted to force them into their ranks.
The encampments were sighted from the air by the Minister of the Interior Fernando Rospigliosi, who flew over the zone to verify the information and the effectiveness of the operations. The operations destroyed several of the Shining Path's encampments. With the destruction of the last sites, the authorities believe they have isolated the Senderistas, because their encampments served as food-production centers.
One aspect of police strategy is to isolate the guerrillas from the civil population. From testimony gathered from the Ashaninkas, the Senderistas not only used trees and caves in the jungle as shelter but also used the natives as human shields.
The police continue making intense efforts to locate more kidnapped natives or those who fled into the jungle and are leading a precarious existence, fleeing from the death, terror and desolation that the rebels left in their wake. The authorities have known since 1989 of the rebels' forced recruitment and kidnappings of women and children and selective assassinations.
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