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Add This to Fujimori’s Crimes : Mass Sterilizations

7:55 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Peru| Women · 3 Comments

16 Apr 2009

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.

During Fujimori’s time in office hundreds of thousands of Andean women were “threaded” or given hysterectomies, many against their will. Health clinics would open in rural villages, sometimes accompanied by military bands and dancing. Posters would appear all over the countryside urging family planning. but family planning wasn’t about access to birth control for the Fujimori regime. It was about stopping indigenous people from having children at all.

There is a nearly half hour documentary on this here.

Peruvian Court Declares Fujimori Guilty of Human Rights Violations

7 Apr 2009

Breaking news: justice has once again caught up with ex-president of Perú 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.

Acting Crazy Couldn’t Help Fujimori Avoid Jail Time

2:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Peru| Politics · Comments Off

12 Dec 2007

Acting the fool didn’t help former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $92,000. The sentence actually has nothing to do with the human rights violations he so vehemently denied yesterday. The sentence is linked to him ordering the removal of sensitive video and audio tapes from an apartment belonging to the wife of his former intelligence chief.

Supreme Court Judge Pedro Guillermo Urbina found Mr Fujimori guilty of having a military aide pose as a prosecutor and search without a warrant the apartment of the wife of spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos in November 2000.
During the illegal raid, police removed dozens of boxes of videos suspected to contain incriminating evidence of corrupt practices.
The tapes, which the Peruvian media have termed “Vladi Videos”, had been secretly made by Mr Montesinos showing himself bribing broadcasters and opposition politicians.

Not surprisingly, Fujimori will appeal the sentence.

Via / BBC

Fujimori’s Camp Pulls the Health Card

10:25 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Peru · Comments Off

5 Oct 2007

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is pulling a Pinochet. Just like the former dictator of Chile managed to escape justice by claiming ill health, Fujimori’s lawyer says that his client is “delicate”. Health concerns include Fujimori’s blood pressure.

Fujimori is back in Peru facing human rights violations charges. Fujimori’s camp is also complaining about his treatmeant, saying his cell is too small and that he’s not being given a chance to go outside.

Via / Yahoo! News

Fujimori Safe in Chile (For Now)

4:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Peru| Politics · Comments Off

12 Jul 2007

Former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, is breathing a little easier today after yesterday a Chilean Supreme Court judge decided that he should not be extradited to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges. But he’s not in the clear yet. Now the Supreme Court which has the final say on whether Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990-2000, is sent to Lima. He’s been under house arrest in Santiago de Chile .

Via / MSNBC

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