ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru — The leader of an armed nationalist group that violently seized a remote Peruvian police station, taking 10 officers hostage and allegedly killing four others, said Monday the group would not turn over its weapons as promised because the government violated the terms of surrender.
Former army Maj. Antauro Humala, who on Saturday led about 100 gunmen to overrun the police station here, said security forces surrounding this town of 35,000 people were still shooting at his group.
"Because the other side continues to use troops close to us, firing their weapons in violation of one of various conditions of the truce," the deal was off, said Humala, dressed in battle fatigues.
"I declare the negotiations terminated until the arrival of a commission from Lima," he said, adding that he also wanted mediators from the state's human rights ombudsman's office, the Red Cross and President Alejandro Toledo's government.
The attackers, who want to establish a nationalist indigenous movement modeled on the ancient Incan Empire, demanded that President Alejandro Toledo resign.
Humala's men, many of them army reservists who reportedly fought in the 1995 jungle border war with Ecuador, maintained an armed perimeter two blocks around the police station. Townspeople, many of whom expressed support for Humala, milled about freely within the zone.
At least seven people, including five police officers, were wounded in a shootout during early Saturday's takeover. Ten officers were taken hostage. An 11th officer emerged Monday from a hiding place on a roof.
On Sunday, the group allegedly ambushed a police vehicle responding to the scene, about 275 miles southeast of the capital, Lima, killing four police officers and wounding several more. One gunman later died of his wounds, local media reported.
After negotiating with the government, Humala told his followers Sunday over Radioprogramas radio that the group would turn over its weapons at noon Monday.
"These soldiers, these romantics, these young boys have risked their skins for their nationalist ideals," he added.
His group accuses Toledo of selling out Peru to business interests in Chile, a historic rival, and supports the legalization of coca, the raw material to make cocaine. Toledo refused Humala's demands to step down.