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| Fujimori jailed for abusing power |
| 2007-12-12 |
| The former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to six years in prison and fined $92,000 (£45,000) for abuse of power. He was found guilty of ordering the removal of sensitive video and audio tapes from a flat belonging to the wife of his former intelligence chief. Mr Fujimori is the first ex-Peruvian head of state to have been convicted of crimes committed while in office. The sentence comes a day after he went on trial for human rights violations. Mr Fujimori is accused of authorising two death squad massacres, in which 25 people were killed, during a campaign against the left-wing Shining Path insurgency in the early 1990s. He denies the charges. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #4 Fujimori may have been the President of Peru, but I always suspected he was secretly Japanese. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-12-12 11:19 |
| #3 He should never have returned... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2007-12-12 10:05 |
| #2 I thought Fujimori was in "exile" in Japan. Are they trying him in absentia? |
| Posted by: Spot 2007-12-12 08:23 |
| #1 Fujimori has committed the ultimate sin... instead of negotiating with a Maoist terrorist group, he waged total war against them, actually crushing their insurgency. The horror and rage felt by leftists when they ponder the extermination of their Maoist shock troops must be satiated... Alberto must do hard time... |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-12 06:14 |