APPEALS FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
The National Secretariat of the Frente de Izquierda Revolucionario [Left Revolutionary Front] of Peru has issued an appeal . for international protest against the repressive measures being used by the Belatinde government against political opponents.
"We ask," says the appeal, which was released in Lima May 28, "that demands’ be placed with the Peruvian government to respect the lives of political prisoners. They are the victims of unspeakable — torture, when they are not murdered in cold blood, without any |
trial, or left without adequate medical attention."
The FIR calls special attention to the case of their comrade, Hugo Blanco, who is being held "practically incommunicado in Arequipa, deprived. of the possibility of reading and working, gravely i11." ‘
In Huancayo, according to the appeal, thirty-seven people are being held on charges of: guerrilla activities. They have been savagely tortured, particularly Antonio Meza Bravo. The medical report itself in his case notes that his liver, kidneys and lungs are affected and that he is clese to a mental breakdown. |
: Pancha Durand Borda, Pilar Borda Viuda de Durand and Nieves Rado Calderén have been held since August 1965 in the Women's Jail in Belén (Cuzco). They are gravely ill. The 18-year-old Nievas Rado Calderén is reported to have suffered a mental breakdown.
The FIR. appeals for. protests and actions to let ‘the Belatnde government know what the world thinks about such things. The demand should be made that it end its criminal, indiscriminate repression, respect the lives of political. prisoners and. grant them a general amnesty. oo a
FRANCISCO