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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.

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