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The Dramatic Hostage Crisis and Daring Rescue at the Japanese Embassy in Peru It sounds like something out of a novel: a group of rebels, helped by an American, seize an embassy in a South American country and hold dozens of people hostage for more than four months. Indeed, the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis inspired the 2001 best-selling novel Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The real-life crisis began on December 17, 1996 in Lima, when terrorists blew a hole through the wall of the Japanese ambassador’s residence and took hostage more than 700 high-level diplomats, government and military officials and business executives who were attending a party celebrating Emperor Akihito’s birthday. adst.org/2013/12/the-dramatic-hostage-crisis-and-daring-rescue-at-the-japanese-embassy-in-peru/ #Peru #hostage
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:01:40 +0000

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