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Lion’s den?

“The proposal is concrete, that the captors lay down their arms...and facilitate the release of all the hostages, without exceptions,” he said in a televised statement.

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The crisis began when about 20 members of a leftist group seized the residence of Japan’s ambassador to Peru during a party Tuesday night.

About 340 hostages are being held, and the Tupac Amaru rebel leaders have threatened to kill them unless officials release hundreds of their imprisoned confederates.

Recently freed hostages said the leader of the leftist Tupac Amaru terrorists holding the hostages is one of Peru’s most wanted and dangerous men: Nestor Cerpa Cartolini.

Cerpa Cartolini is a co-founder of the Tupac Amaru movement who was jailed in the late 1970s for involvement in the bloody takeover of a textile factory in which three policemen were killed.

He is also credited with a dramatic 1990 tunnel escape that freed Tupac Amaru leader Victor Polay and nearly 50 other comrades from one of Peru’s maximum security prisons. Polay was recaptured two years later, but Cerpa Cartolini has remained at large even as Peruvian authorities congratulated themselves for having contained the terrorist threat.

“There is absolutely no doubt that it is Cerpa Cartolini who has directed and is directing this operation,” said Manuel Romero, editor of Peru’s leading business newspaper, who was released with 37 other hostages Friday.