Victor Polay Campos This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. MRTA-English

   www.blythe.org/peru-pcp/intro/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/20/2006   Last Visited: 8/15/2007

   (Interview with Victor Polay Campos, head of the MRTA, Daily "El Nacional" December 17, 1989.)
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   (Interview with Victor Polay Campos, Daily "El Nacional" December 17, 1989.)
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   "Under instructions from Nestor Cerpa Cartolini and Victor Polay Campos, I coordinated activities and met on six occasions with Mr. Nicolas Reategui, an emissary of General Mario Brito, Chief of the military base in the city of Tarapoto.
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   (Interview with Victor Polay Campos by Tomas Borge, Published in Barricada-Nicaragua, and Caretas in December 1991.)
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   (Victor Polay Campos, Interview in "SI" Magazine, May 8, 1989.)
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   (Statements by Victor Polay Campos before Perú's antiterrorist police. TV-Frequency Latina, June 18, 1992.)
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   (Victor Polay Campos, La República July 8, 1992.)
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   (Victor Polay Campos, "Interview in the Underground," Revista Desco, August 1985.)
   
   Polay's statement about "avoiding a Civil War" was done when the revolutionary war led by the PCP, had five years of successful development and the dynamics of the class struggle created an ever growing participation by the masses in the revolution. When "Comandante Rolando" spoke about "avoiding a Civil War by way of an understanding," he was very clearly referring to fighting against the People's War.
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   Victor Polay Campos "officially" left APRA in late 1980.

2. 2. LATIN AMERICAN NEWS SYNDICATE

   www.latam-news.com/samples/cat - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/9/1999   Last Visited: 9/15/2000

   In June 1992 Victor Polay Campos, the head of MRTA was captured ; 12 ranking Senderos were seized, and the central SL logistics apparatus destroyed that same month. But the telling blow was struck in September 1992 when a drunken Guzman and six of his top commanders were captured at the dance academy of ballerina Maritza Garrida Lecca. This coup was aided by the one million dollars which had been put on Guzman's head and which was duly shared by the 40 DINCOTE agents making the arrest. In his address of 13/9/92, Fujimori told the nation :.
   
   All Peruvians know the significance of the capture of Abimael Guzman, alias Cmdte Gonzalo, because we know... [ that ] Sendero Luminoso ...means destruction, death, and narcotics...the Peruvian...became acquainted with Abimael Guzman through the medium of a video... [ and learned ] that, instead of the revolutionary leader fabricated by the mythology, he was a drunken fellow, sluggishly performing a Greek dance...against a background... [ of ] the founders of Communism. Since then the intelligence services...have followed the trail of Guzman... [ and ] achieved...a transcendant [ success ] ....
   
   The successes continued ; the terrorists were not released ; and then came the surrender of the imprisoned Guzman. In a three-page letter of 6/10/93 to Fujimori, Guzman surrendered telling the SL leadership to surrender and turn over their arms. An earlier letter (1 Oct) had asked for peace negotiations which Fujimori rejected, pointing out that Guzman knew that 90 % of his command and staff had been captured and there was nothing left to negotiate.