The inexhaustible heart of the people fed them with humble nourishment and set them in motion; the class struggle shaped their minds. The Party, as the first and highest social form, raised their political consciousness by arming it with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought. It enhanced their combative nature by organizing them into the People’s Guerrilla Army and merging them with the masses of the poor peasantry, tempering their body and spirit in the unextinguishable forge of the people’s war. As prisoners of war, they never kneeled, persisting in fighting, mobilizing, and producing in fervent struggles, transforming the squalid dungeons of the decaying and rotten Peruvian State into shining trenches of combat. The decisive, precise, and ruthless blows of the people’s war and its unstoppable advance stirred the hyena-like innards of the reaction, echoing incessantly as relentless lashes and urgent demands in the murky and tumultuous nightmares of the now fascist and corporate Aprista government, especially in the unrestrained ambitions of the demagogue apprentice “führer” who leads it. Thus, the reaction, the government, and the now genocidal García Pérez dreamed of bloody and obscure plans for a devastating, decisive blow that would crush the people’s war.
The rebellion of prisoners of war is the public unmasking and condemnation before the world of these sinister plans for mass slaughter, in defense of the revolution and their own lives. The monstrous and infamous genocide, perpetrated by the armed forces and repressive apparatus with blind hatred for the people and perverse homicidal fury, crashed against the indomitable, iron, fierce resistance of comrades, fighters, and children of the masses who boldly displayed ideology, courage, and heroism in a fiery warlike challenge. If the reactionary beast drank blood to satiety to impose the peace of the dead, the lives miserably and cunningly extinguished transformed into imperishable ones, embodying the monumental trilogy of the luminous combat trenches of El Frontón, Lurigancho, and Callao—a historical milestone that will proclaim more and more the greatness of the Day of Heroism. The intended devastating and decisive blow ended up falling on the heads of those who conceived it, sinking the Aprista government, fascist and corporate, and its president, violating the norms of its state in a serious political crisis and great discredit from which they still cannot emerge. Thus, the rebellion of prisoners of war, at the cost of their own lives, achieved a grand moral, political, and military triumph for the Party and the revolution. Moreover, they notably contributed to the success of completing the great leap with a golden seal and laid the foundations for the new plan to develop bases, whose first campaign has been the greatest upheaval of the Peruvian state to date and the most significant repercussion of people’s war, both within and outside the country. Thus, prisoners of war, like characters in history, continue to win battles beyond death, living and fighting in us, conquering new victories. We feel their strong and indelible presence pulsating and luminous, teaching us today, tomorrow, and always to give our lives for the Party and the revolution.
Glory to the Day of Heroism!