25 Years in Prison for Fujimori

In a historic ruling, a Peruvian court sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to 25 years in prison for human rights violations. Fujimori, 70, was accused of being the intellectual author of the Barrios Altos massacre in 1991 and the La Cantuta massacre in 1992, carried out by an army squad known as the Colina group, and of the kidnapping of a businessman and a journalist.

Author
BBC Mundo
Publisher
BBC Mundo
Date
2009
Source
CVR - Hemeroteca
Reference ID
articulo-1035

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