Fujimori entered Japan so what? -
04-22-2009, 03:17 PM
BBC News America Tues 8 2009
Fujimori gets lengthy jail term
Mr Fujimori's decade in power came to a dramatic end in November 2000 when he fled to his parents' native Japan in the wake of a bribery scandal involving his intelligence chief.
Former President of Peru-
Mr Fujimori's trial was suspended several times due to his poor health
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
At the end of a 15-month trial, judges found him guilty of two death-squad killings of 25 people during the conflict with guerrillas in the 1990s.
After being sentenced, Mr Fujimori said he would appeal against the verdict.
Human rights group Amnesty International described the verdict as "a milestone in the fight for justice".
"It is not every day when a former head of state is convicted for human rights violations such as torture, kidnapping and enforced disappearances.
"We hope that it is just the first of many trials in both Latin America and throughout the world."
Mr Fujimori is already serving a six-year term after being found guilty in 2007 on separate charges of abuse of power.
The trial, which took place at a special-forces police base on the outskirts of the capital, Lima, was the first time a democratically elected Latin American leader had been tried and found guilty in his own country for human rights abuses.
In reading the court's ruling, Chief Judge Cesar San Martin said the charges were proven beyond all reasonable doubt
FUJIMORI CHARGES
1991 Barrios Altos killings: 15 dead
1992 La Cantuta killings: 10 dead
1992 illegal detention: journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer
Separate trial on corruption and illegal wiretapping charges.
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