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	Encyclopedia: Japanese embassy hostage crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A hostage crisis is a situation created by militants or terrorists wherein they take over a building full of people and then: (a) hold them till their demands or met, or (b) hold them until someone they respect tells them to stop or they decide to surrender, or (c) are...
		The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day period during which the new government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States.
		The Dominican embassy siege was the 1980 siege of the embassy of the Dominican Republic by M-19 guerrillas in BogotÃ¡, Colombia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese-embassy-hostage-crisis (635 words)

	Japanese embassy hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After being held hostage for 126 days, the dignitaries were freed in a daring raid by Peruvian Armed Forces commandos, during which one hostage, two commandos, and all the MRTA militants died.
		Their tasks were to blow out a grenade-proof door on the second floor, through which the hostages would be evacuated, and to make two holes in the roof so that they could kill the MRTA members upstairs before they had time to kill the hostages.
		The crisis took place at the ambassador's residence and not the embassy, but the media and others customarily referred to as the "Japanese embassy" hostage crisis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_embassy_hostage_crisis (4181 words)

	Peru's hostage crisis is history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Though the upcoming one-year anniversary of the daring takeover of the huge residence has resulted in increased media attention on details of the crisis, most analysts believe the country is essentially unchanged as a result of the attack.
		One hostage died on the way to the hospital, but the rest were rescued unharmed.
		"Japanese viewers are savvy after seeing this story as the lead part of the news every day for four months, and we are having a hard time finding something new to report," said Kathleen Namura, a Lima television producer working with some of the visiting crews.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/12/14/peru-anny.3-1.html (903 words)

	Alberto Fujimori - Wikipedia
		Most observers believe his Japanese descent benefitted Fujimori, as much of the population of the country is of indigenous descent, and his ethnicity helped set him apart from the Spanish-dominated political elites.
		Peruvians saw drugs as primarily a U.S. problem and the least of their concerns, given the economic crisis, Shining Path and MRTA insurgents, and an outbreak of kolera, which further isolated Peru because of a resulting ban on food imports.
		The 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis, the major event of Fujimori's second term, was one of the last major episodes of terrorism.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberto_Fujimori (4790 words)

	CNN - Japan's foreign minister goes to Peru for hostage talks - Dec. 19, 1996
		Japanese television was providing extensive, live coverage of developments as the nation followed the fate of about 400 captives held by Peruvian rebels at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima.
		In 1991 and 1992 the Japanese embassy in Lima was one of several embassies attacked by Marxist guerrillas.
		Because of the hostage crisis, Japan's Emperor Akihito, whose upcoming birthday was the reason for the gathering at the ambassador's house in Peru, has canceled all events that were to take place in Tokyo on Monday to celebrate his 63rd birthday.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9612/19/peru.japan.reax (350 words)

	Chavín de Huantar (military) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chavín de Huantar was the name given to a team of hundred and forty commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces who ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence to free the hostages.
		During the course of the assault on 22 April 1997, two commandos, one hostage, and all fourteen of the rebels died in the assault.
		The success of the operation was tainted by subsequent revelations that at least three and possibly eight of the rebels had been summararily executed by the commandos after surrendering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chav%C3%ADn_de_Huantar_(military) (286 words)

	Ambassador at center of Peru's hostage crisis announces resignation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was a dramatic reversal for Morihisa Aoki, who had been widely praised during the 126-day hostage crisis for gamely working to raise the morale of fellow captives.
		Hostages released early in the crisis praised him for his bravery and level head.
		According to an unconfirmed report in one weekly, the Shukan Bunshun, Aoki drank copiously throughout the crisis, prompting the Japanese hostages to secretly write a letter to the government requesting he be replaced.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/05/14/peru.0-0.html (549 words)

	Hostage Crisis, Chechnya War - Johnson's Russia List 10-31-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the storming of the Japanese embassy in Peru, which had been seized by terrorists, the authorities tried to conceal such facts, and when the truth about the shootings surfaced, a scandal erupted.
		This was not the notorious "Stockholm syndrome", with the victims identifying with the terrorists, or an attempt to placate the hostage-takers.
		During the days of the crisis, the same thought came simultaneously into the minds of many Russians: it was not only the eight hundred people in the theatre centre who were hostages, but all of society was being held hostage by the authorities.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/6525-15.cfm (2612 words)

	MSN Encarta - Terrorism
		A global audience that had tuned in to watch the Olympics found themselves witnessing a grisly hostage situation that ended in a botched rescue attempt by German authorities in which both the terrorists and their captives were killed.
		An example of an attack believed to be state sponsored was the attempted assassination in 1981 of Pope John Paul II by a Turkish citizen who allegedly was working for the Soviet and Bulgarian secret services.
		Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization carried out simultaneous suicide bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; a suicide attack in 2000 on a U.S. navy warship in the harbor of Aden, Yemen; and the suicide attacks of September 11, 2001.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564344_5/Terrorism.html (1891 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Three Japanese hostages freed in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Three Japanese captives in Iraq were freed unharmed on Thursday, ending a week-long hostage crisis.
		The three were turned over to the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Tokyo said.
		The hostage crisis was the toughest test yet of Koizumi's commitment to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/04/15/three_japanese_hostages_freed_in_iraq (446 words)

	CNN - Peru, Japan relieved by hostage rescue - April 23, 1997
		His praise for Peru's actions were echoed by relatives of the hostages and by Japanese who watched the raid replayed all day on television.
		All 24 Japanese nationals who had been held at the residence were among the 71 hostages rescued.
		Peruvian forces struck during daylight on the 126th day of the hostage crisis, as rebel leaders kicked around a soccer ball in the reception hall of the ambassador's residence.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/23/peru (635 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 22 \| 1997: Troops storm embassy in Peru
		Troops have stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru and freed all but one of 72 hostages held inside, ending a four-month siege of the building by anti-government rebels.
		It was a massive risk: the Japanese government, one of Peru's main trading partners, had been pressing him for a negotiated settlement to the crisis.
		During this time, in March 2001, the bodies of all 14 rebels involved in the Japanese embassy siege were exhumed amid allegations that troops shot some of them after they had surrendered.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/22/newsid_4297000/4297347.stm (581 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraq hostage crisis intensifies
		Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP The international hostage crisis in Iraq today grew as seven US and seven Chinese civilians went missing and there was mounting uncertainty over the fate of three kidnapped Japanese nationals.
		The hostage, who finished secondary school last month, is a member of a group trying to raise awareness about the health hazards facing civilians in Iraq from the depleted uranium munitions used by US troops.
		A Japanese government minister in the Middle East said its embassy in Jordan was "in contact with somebody" but refused to elaborate further.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1190401,00.html (1087 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Hostage Rescue -- May 13, 1997
		A panel with Bob Taubert discusses the tactics used to re-take the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru.
		In a stunning attack, a band of Peruvian rebels stormed the Japanese embassy in Lima holding 490 hostage.
		Hostage negotiators, while on duty are isolated from everyone in the command post (CP).
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/may97/peru1_5-13.html (232 words)

	Kukui Roadhouse: 12/18/95 Peru Hostage Crisis
		The rebels released 170 hostages, but threatened to kill at least 200 remaining unless the government freed jailed comrades.
		It was the largest group of hostages freed by the Tupac Amaru rebels since the early hours of the crisis Tuesday night, when two dozen rebels stormed the Japanese ambassador's residence during a gala VIP party.
		Peruvian troops stormed the Japanese ambassador's mansion Tuesday and rescued 71 hostages held for four months, killing all 14 rebel captors.
	www.mahk.com /sc5337.htm (322 words)

	Death threat looms over hostage crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The dramatic standoff at the Japanese ambassador's residence moved into a second night, with the Tupac Amaru rebels insisting on freedom for 300 imprisoned comrades, changes in government policy, and money and safe passage to the jungle for the hostage-takers.
		The hostages had been divided into groups and put in separate rooms, each guarded by guerrillas with hand grenades.
		The embassy is Japanese territory, and Fujimori would technically need Japanese permission to send in troops.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/121996/death.htm (395 words)

	Online NewsHour: Peru Hostage Crisis Analysis-- April 23, 1997
		And they asked that the prisoners, the rebels in the embassy, and the hostages be transported to a jungle hideout where the hostages would then be released.
		Hostage families gathered at the embassy, hoping for an Easter release.
		According to one hostage eight of the rebels, including the Tupac leader, were attacked while they played indoor soccer.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/april97/peru_4-23a.html (1138 words)

	CNN.com - Death threat to Iraq hostages - Apr 8, 2004
		The three Japanese were among 12 foreign nationals kidnapped Thursday in various incidents within Iraq, a seemingly new tactic by insurgents to try to drive a wedge in the U.S.-led coalition.
		The Japanese government's reaction was swift, demanding the release of their citizens and denouncing the hostage-taking as unforgivable.
		Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi insisted that sending troops was not only necessary, but a moral imperative to support the U.S. occupation there.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/04/08/iraq.missing (1018 words)

	Japan Faces Iraq Hostage Crisis as Cheney Heads for Asia -- 04/09/2004
		Japanese television has been airing video footage of three Japanese civilians, two men and a woman, being held by Iraqi terrorists calling themselves the Mujahedeen Brigades.
		Japanese media have identified the three as an aid worker, a photojournalist accredited to a weekly magazine, and a freelance journalist affiliated with a group campaigning against the use of depleted uranium munitions.
		The three are believed to have gone missing while traveling from Amman to Baghdad, and it was to the Japanese Embassy in the Jordanian capital that Tokyo sent Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa Friday to oversee handling of the crisis.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200404\FOR20040409b.html (1223 words)

	Captors threaten to execute Japanese hostage in Iraq - Apr. 12, 2004
		The captors are "giving the Japanese government a 24-hour ultimatum, not open to extension, after which they will execute a first" hostage, Mezher al-Delaimi, who was identified as head of the League for the Defense of Iraqis' Rights, told Al-Jazeera television.
		A Japanese foreign ministry official said in Tokyo that the government had been informed by "several sources" that the three civilians may be released on Sunday.
		A senior Japanese embassy spokesman said Japan was working closely with various unnamed "concerned entities" to free the trio.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/apr/12/wnw_2-1.htm (518 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Noting that the whole world is shaking after the tragedy of September 11, he recalled that five years ago his country underwent some difficult days due to the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Lima.
		Although the outcome of this tragedy was not a happy one, the Japanese hostages were able to leave the embassy unharmed and safe.
		He confirmed that one of the acts that initiated this progress was the Cuban government’s decision to collaborate with Japan to find a peaceful solution to the 1996 hostage crisis that erupted at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima.
	www.granma.cu /INGLES/octu2/41japon-i.html (579 words)

	BBC News \| World \| Power struggle in Peru
		In April 140 army commandos stormed the embassy to free 72 hostages who were being held by members of the Tupac Amaru revolutionary movement.
		All 14 of the hostage takers and one hostage died during the rescue.
		The crisis is a rare moment of disagreement between the President and his military leaders.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/41495.stm (468 words)

	Iraqi captors release two Japanese: Tokyo asked to withdraw troops -DAWN - Top Stories; 18 April, 2004
		BAGHDAD, April 17: Two Japanese held hostage in Iraq were released by their captors here on Saturday and turned over to an association of Sunni Muslim scholars just hours after a detained US soldier, flanked by hooded gunmen, was paraded on an Arabic satellite channel.
		Kubaissi said a representative from the Japanese embassy was present at the handover at the headquarters of the committee in west Baghdad.
		Kubaissi said: "One of the Japanese said that his captors determined, after verifying his identity, that he was an honest man and that he opposed the occupation and the presence of Japanese soldiers in Iraq."
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/18/top10.htm (510 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Hostages - Peru - Japanese Embassy -- Feb. 7, 1997
		One of the hostages is the Bolivian ambassador.
		During the hostage standoff the MRTA has tried hard to distinguish itself from the Shining Path, sending e-mails to the press saying they are "social fighters," not terrorists, and that they respect international human rights conventions (a bit of a hard point to swallow in the context of a hostage standoff).
		The rebels have allowed several sick hostages to leave; it's hard to know if they would do the same for the Bolivian ambassador, as he is "valuable" to them (Bolivia has four MRTA members in its jails).
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/february97/peru_2-7.html (2561 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| US hostage faces execution
		In Tokyo, relatives of three Japanese hostages being held in Iraq issued a desperate plea to their captors yesterday not to carry out their threat to execute them today if Tokyo refuses to withdraw its troops.
		Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is understood to have made a similar plea in a recorded address distributed to major TV networks in Tokyo late last night.
		A team of Japanese anti-terrorism experts arrived in Amman, the Jordanian capital, on Friday night, but few details emerged of their efforts to contact the hostage-takers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1189996,00.html (733 words)

	CBS News \| Civilians Rethink Security In Iraq \| April 13, 2004 12:25:24
		Iraqi security guards stand in front of the Russian embassy in Baghdad, Eight employees of a Russian energy company, who were seized by masked gunmen were released Tuesday.
		Kunihiko Miyake, a Japanese official coordinating rescue efforts from Amman for three Japanese among the hostages in Iraq, said there had been new security measures to protect Japanese diplomats and other citizens in Iraq.
		Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said he wouldn't deal with terrorists and stressed that Japan's contingent of about 500 ground troops is on a humanitarian mission in Iraq.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/08/world/main610981.shtml (970 words)

	Peruvian Hostage Crisis - ENN Continued Reports
		It is the opinion of Aquino that the MRTA did not merely seize the Japanese ambassador's residence as a publicity stunt.
		On Thursday, Guatemalan Ambassador Jose Maria Argueta was released from captivity from the residence of the Japanese ambassador.
		One freed hostage reported that he heard terrorist leader Nestor Cerpa tell Bolivia's ambassador: "You're staying with me until the end." A Bolivian government spokesman said on Thursday that his government had no intention to giving in the pressure from the MRTA and will not release the four "terrorists" in exchange for their ambassador.
	www.emergency.com /peruhos3.htm (2179 words)

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