“Are from Shining Path. It’s not that they were acting in the Shining Path style. It is Sendero Luminoso with a new modality, with a new, different way of acting,” the head of the organization told La República. Directorate against Terrorism (Dircote), PNP General José Zavala Chumbiauca, referring to the seven detainees in Ayacucho, who are accused of alleged belonging to a terrorist organization.
Among those arrested are the president of the Ayacucho Defense Front (Fredepa), Rocío Leandro Melgar; the vice president, Estéfany Alanya Chumbes; the recording secretary, José Manay Pillaca; and the press officer, Fernando Quinto Cuba.
According to the head of the Dircote, by orders of the management hikerheaded by Elena Iparraguirre Revoredo, widow of the terrorist leader Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, his followers infiltrated Fredepa with the aim of generating chaos.
“Its ultimate goal is to seize power by destabilizing the State and replacing it with a New Democratic People’s Republic, with a new Constitution. The end they pursue is the path to pure communism“, he pointed.
According to the head of Dircote, at a judicial hearing, Elena Iparraguirre displayed a poster that read: “No to impunity for the murder of Abimael Guzman” In a judicial hearing, the same slogan that was used in a Fredepa march was also spread, according to General Zavala. “This would prove that they follow the slogans that the (Senderista) party leadership issues from prison,” he said.
However, Jack Diburga Cuba, a lawyer close to Fredepa, told this newspaper, after reading the grounds of the judicial resolution ordering the arrest of the four members of Fredepa and four other Ayacucho students, that lThe accusations only represent “a criminalization of the protestthere is no evidence of terrorist actions.”
The lawyer of the Ayacucho People’s Defense Front (Fredepa), Jack Diburga Cuba, after analyzing the judicial resolution that orders the detention of leaders of said unionpointed out that there is evidence that those arrested belong to a terrorist organization and that what is being done is criminalizing social protest.
“A large part of the syndication says that a person would be from Sendero Luminoso because he walks on the street stealthily, cautiously. How do you have to walk? like zombie? It also says that the suspects have communications through non-traditional means, such as WhatsApp messages. Do you mean that WhatsApp communications are associated with the terrorist actions? It is also said that chanting slogans in marches, such as ‘Serve the people with all your heart’, is a subversive slogan associated with Sendero Luminoso. And as if that were not enough, it is stated that the request to advance the elections is part of the Shining Path platform. The accusation has neither head nor tail,” said Jack Diburga.
The coordinator of the legal team in charge of defending the detainees in Huamanga, Alan Tapia Robles, also questioned the legal arguments used to require the arrest of the eight defendants (one is in a non-existent condition).
“What is included in the preliminary arrest warrant as accusations are daily events that any leader of a social organization carries out,” he said.
“It is pointed out that the president of Fredepa, Rocio Leandro Rocio Melgarhas had meetings with market leaders, displacements when leading mobilizations, such as on December 15, 2022, and on January 10 and 11, 2023. But said activities are constitutionally protected, such as the right to protest and free organization. There is not a single relevant element of conviction in legal matters that comes close to an act outside the law or terrorist violence. We are surprised that the court with pure subjective elements ruled for the preliminary detention, ”he argued.
Alan Tapia expressed surprise that the judge in the case accepted as an argument that the demand for early elections is a Senderista slogan.
“Their only crime is dreaming of a just society”
The detainee’s wife Alejandro Manay Pillaca I affirm that prevented you from providing food, water and shelter to your spouse. “Their only crime is dreaming of a more just and humane society, and they took it from me,” Judith CG wrote on her Facebook account.
Alejandro Manay studied at the La Cantuta, San Marcos and San Cristóbal de Huamanga universities, and is appointed to the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de Huamanga Educational Institution. He is a teacher specializing in History.
