11:04 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|crime|Justice|Latin America|Peru|Politics
7 Apr 2009Breaking news: justice has once again caught up with ex-president of PerĂº Alberto Fujimori. And this time he’s paying the price for his infamous human rights violations. The video above is of the judge declaring Fujimori “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” of charges related to the deaths of 25 people during his administration.
According to the prosecutor, Fujimori backed the massacre of nine students and a professor from the state university La Cantuta in 1992 and the death of 15 people, among them a child, during a party in the Barrios Altos area in 1991.
In addition he is accused of the kidnapping of a businessman and an opposition journalist, the latter one day after Fujimori closed the Congress and the judicial branch after a self-coup with the help of the army in 1992.
Now the only question that remains is the actual sentence. The prosecutors are pushing for 30 years, but we’ll just have to wait until the sentence comes back just like they are doing in PerĂº. Meanwhile, the judge says he won’t be rushing to return the sentence.
On the other side, Fujimori’s daughter Keiko tells Al Jazeera he’s innocent:
Via / 20 Minutos
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1 Response to Peruvian Court Declares Fujimori Guilty of Human Rights Violations
Add This to Fujimori’s Crimes : Mass Sterilizations | VivirLatino
April 16th, 2009 at 7:55 am
[...] Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was found guily of human rights violations, specifically the deaths of 25 people during his administration, torture and kidnapping. The guilty verdict earned Fujimori 25 years in prison, a sentence that his daughter Keiko said during an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s Al Punto was equivalent to a life sentence due to his age. While Alberto Fujimori plans an appeal and his daughter is thinking of running for president, another one of his war crimes hasn’t been brought up, mass sterilizations of indigenous women and men. [...]