Operation Chavín de Huántar - End of the seizure of the Japanese embassy
Military operation frees Japanese embassy hostages with 17 dead
The hostage crisis ends with the military intervention that achieves the release of the hostages kidnapped in the Japanese ambassador's residence. There are 17 victims: the member of the Supreme Court, Carlos Giusti Acuña; two officers of the EP; and the 14 MRTA subversives who assaulted the residence. After the operation, President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori thanked the Armed Forces and the intelligence services. The military operation put an end to 126 days of kidnapping.