Its last major action resulted in the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis . In December 1996 , 14 MRTA members occupied the Japanese Ambassador 's residence in Lima , holding 72 hostages for more than four months . Under orders from then-President Alberto Fujimori , armed forces stormed the residence in April 1997 , rescuing all but one of the remaining hostages and killing all 14 MRTA militants . Fujimori was publicly acclaimed for the decisive action , but the affair was later tainted by subsequent revelations that at least three , and perhaps as many as eight , of the MRTistas were summarily executed after they surrendered
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement