EVIDENCE THAT FUJIMORI DID NOT PROMOTE A FAMILY PLANNING CAMPAIGN BUT A METHOD TO ELIMINATE THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION
Fujimori's false rhetoric, claiming that his family planning program would give indigenous people access to the same contraceptive methods as wealthy families in Lima, was simply a campaign to permanently sterilize indigenous women. They were not informed about the pill or condoms; their fallopian tubes were simply tied. These photographs published by the Defensoría del Pueblo in 1998 bear witness to such horror. The photos were taken in villages but we do not yet have photos of the sterilizations that were carried out in military-style tents that traveled through small rural settlements. Around 300,000 indigenous women were intimidated or deceived into being sterilized for life; in some populations, such as the Asháninka, 30% of women underwent fallopian tube ligation.