Japanese embassy hostage crisis

When

17 Dec 1996

Kind

Event

Coordinates

12.09° S, 77.05° W

Description

The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru.

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1996–1997 hostage crisis in Lima, Peru

The Japanese embassy hostage crisis began on 17 December 1996, when hundreds of high-level diplomats, government, and military officials and business executives, were taken hostage at the Japanese ambassador's residence in San Isidro District, Lima, Peru.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Perú, un comando del MRTA toma la embajada japonesa en Lima, donde se realizaba una fiesta, reteniendo a más de 600 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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