Operation “Chavín de Huántar”

It was an operation that lasted 126 days and ended in

1997, carried out by the Chavin de Huantar command in
the rescue of 72 hostages in the Japanese embassy, taken
captive by MRTA terrorists.
On 17 December 1996
• everything was going well until 14 members of the terrorist group
MRTA took over the residence of the Japanese ambassador, Morihisa
Aoki at the celebration of the birth of the Emperor of Japan, which
was attended by more than 500 people.
Talks
• the terrorists were releasing hostages among women, the elderly and
employees of the event at the request of the international committee
of the red cross. And it came down to 72 hostages
Peruvian personalities liberated
• among them is
• Javier Diaz Canseco
• Alejandro Toledo
• mother of president Alberto Fujimori
• terrorists called for the release of 400 members imprisoned for
terrorism
• Among the 72 hostages were Francisco Sagasti and several
congressmen
• Alberto Fujimori was the president at that time
April, 1997
• the kidnapping lasted until April 1997
• During all this time, they sought to reach peaceful negotiations,
however. In parallel to the negotiations, a special operations force
was trained, made up of elements of the army and the special combat
unit of the Peruvian navy.
• The training took place in a replica of the residence, built in the
facilities of the Chorrillos military school, which was accessed through
underground tunnels.
• the government hired miners to build tunnels to access the residence
and carry out the rescue
• as the tunnels had a similarity to the temples of the ancient pre-Inca
Peruvian culture known as chavin de huantar. in this way it was
attributed to the operation chavin de huantar and the special forces
were called command chavin de huantar.
22 April 1997
• after the terrorists no longer guaranteed the hostages' health. The
Peruvian government made the decision to send the Chavin de
Huantar command, they entered through the tunnels and exploded
floors and killed all the terrorists.
• In this operation, one of the hostages, Carlos Giusti, died as a result of
the injury to his leg and two commandos who were protecting
Foreign Minister Tudela also died.
• Operation chavín de huantar considered the most successful military
rescue operation in history