Document #1258223
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Please find a fax from the Andean
Commission of Jurists, received by the DIRB on 27 April 1993, that
adds to Responses to Information Requests PER13471, PER13472,
PER13473 and PER13475. What follows is an unofficial translation of
the contents of the Spanish-language document, provided here for
your reference.
1. After reviewing our information, mostly
originating from the press, we have not found any reference to the
anti-drug operations mentioned in your questions, except for a news
cable from EFE [a news agency] dated 3 August 1989. The news cable
states that an offensive against "narcoterrorism" took place in
July 1989 in the Huallaga Valleyin the departments of San
Martín and Hu nucoin which a number of rebel camps were
destroyed and several rebels died.
2. The provinces of Pataz, Santiago de
Chuco and Huamachuco in La Libertad were not under a state of
emergency in 1988-1989. Only the province of Trujillo has been
under a state of emergency, and only in August and September
1990.
3. The province of Huacrachuco, in Hu nuco,
was placed under a state of emergency beginning 16 March 1988.
4. The department of La Libertad borders
with the departments of San Martín and Hu nucowhere the
production of coca is concentratedso it is likely that these crops
exist in La Libertad.
Please excuse the general nature of our
response and our current inability to confirm the anti-drug
operations mentioned in your request, but unfortunately the
researcher who is most familiar with this subject is away from the
office [of the Andean Commission of Jurists] at this time. This
response, however, does not mean the operations did not take place,
but that they were not recorded by the press.
Andean Commission of Jurists, Lima. 27
April 1993. Fax Received by DIRB.
Andean Commission of Jurists, Lima. 27
April 1993. Fax Received by DIRB.