A WORLD TO WIN    #21   (1995)

 

"Outline for a Basic Document" - The 11 Point Programme for Capitulation

The following, written in the latter part of 1993 by leaders of the Right Opportunist Line in Canto Grande prison outside Lima, strips this line down to its most shameful essence. It is an outline of their proposed agreement with the Peruvian government of Alberto Fujimori. The authorities allowed family members of pro-negotiations prisoners to bring it out, along with the document Asumir, to circulate among Party members and supporters around the country. It was also given to the press by the regime, which has never made any official comment. - AWTW

I. Introduction

1. We uphold our ideology and class principles, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, as well as our Party membership.

2. Ending the people's war represents neither surrender nor abandoning the revolution, but rather continuing the struggle under new conditions.

3. We are in favour of signing a Peace Agreement as an historic step of imperious necessity that today has become a necessity for the people, the nation and Peruvian society as a whole; the people need peace, as well as democracy and development, and especially conditions that would allow them to meet their fundamental needs.

4. This basic document has as its objective the achievement of a peace agreement.

5. The two sides in this round of conversations are the two banks of a river with a common problem. Each of us, from our own respective point of view, agrees that we must achieve a goal: a peace agreement.

II. Basic Approach

1. Sign a peace agreement whose application would lead to the ending of the war the country is experiencing.

2. End the people's war begun 17 May 1980, in all its four forms of guerrilla actions. Disband the People's Guerrilla Army, destroying its arms and combat materiel; likewise, dissolve the People's Committees and the revolutionary base areas of the People's New Democratic Republic.

3. End the military actions against the people's war by the Armed Forces and Police of the Peruvian state, as well as by secondary forces.

4. Free all prisoners of war, by groups and according to a timetable, whether or not they have been sentenced because of the people's war according to currently applicable legislation. Improvement of prison conditions for those who temporarily remain in this situation. An end to isolation. Family visits, legal defence, work, study and recreation.

5. End the repression and persecution of Party members, fighters, sympathizers and the people by anti-subversive forces in the country, as well as of persons residing abroad. Cancellation of pending trials, no new trials, annulment of judicial summons and arrest warrants.

6. End the campaign being carried out in Peru and abroad against the people's war, the Party and its members and sympathizers. Instead, carry out a campaign in favour of the necessity of peace, democracy and development.

7. Help, and in no way hinder, the reintegration into social life and everyday life of Party members, fighters and sympathizers of the people's war, as well as of those Peruvians of similar status who return from abroad with that aim.

8. Respect for the mortal remains of the heroes of the people fallen in these years of war, return of the bodies or information as to their whereabouts. The same for the disappeared - the right of their family members and friends to visit their graves and pay them homage. This includes the remains of Comrade Norah and other sons and daughters of the people.

9. Return of the central archives of the PCP, its library and museum of the revolution, including seized video and audio recordings.

10. As peace is gradually reestablished, legislation should guarantee strict respect for fundamental rights, such as individual rights, as well as economic and social rights, and should also meet the demands of the people for democracy and development, especially their fundamental needs. There should be a special plan to promote development in the areas affected by the war, principally benefitting the peasants, the poor masses of the shantytowns and the workers, giving substantial attention to those crippled, orphaned or widowed by the war.

11. A law of general amnesty for the sake of national reconciliation, without victors or vanquished, without reprisals, vengeance, persecution or personal restrictions placed on anyone, which would only complicate the arduous task of fulfilling the peace agreement to which both sides are committed.