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LIMA, Peru - A special tribunal convicted former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of murder and kidnapping on Tuesday and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, saying he authorized a government death squad during the Shining Path insurgency.
The
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Santa Maria Times
http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2009/04/07/ap/headlines/d97dpeto0.txt
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Former
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is now facing up to 30 years in prison
after a panel of judges found him guilty of ordering a series of mass killings
and kidnappings while in office during the 1990s.
Fujimori
was found guilty of ordering two
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TransWorldNews
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=82712
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CARACAS, Venezuela A three-judge panel of Peru’s Supreme Court found Peru’s former president, Alberto K. Fujimori, guilty of human rights abuses on Tuesday, including the murder of 25 people by a death squad created under his rule in the early 1990s.
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International Herald Tribune
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Relatives of victims during the administration of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori protest outside the Justice Palace in Lima, Monday, April 6, 2009. Fujimori, 70, is being tried for rights violations and if convicted faces 30 years in prison.
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Key dates in former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's rise, fall and trial for murder and kidnapping:
-- June 1990: A university president and political unknown, Fujimori is elected president in stunning upset of novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
--
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Boston Globe
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LIMA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 10,000 Peruvian policemen were put on a three-day alert in Lima Monday, a day before a court in Lima rules on the trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, police officers said.
General Carlos
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Xinhua
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LIMA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Peru's President Alan
Garcia told media on Monday he was confident that the nation's courts will hand
down a just sentence to ex-president Alberto Fujimori, currently on trial for
crimes against humanity.
"As president,
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/07/content_11142252.htm
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LIMA, Peru — Most Peruvians think Alberto Fujimori, the world's first democratically elected former president to be tried for rights violations in his own country, is guilty as charged of murder and kidnapping.
Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori
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Centre Daily Times
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Alberto Fujimori portrayed himself in court as Perus savior.
Alberto Fujimori portrayed himself in court as Perus savior.
The former Peruvian president, facing murder and kidnapping charges, portrays himself as his nation's savior. A judicial
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Los Angeles Times
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LIMA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) rejected on Friday the accusations against him in the Special Penal Hall of the Supreme Court.
In the second day of his self-defense, Fujimori said that the
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/04/content_11130183.htm
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* Guilty verdict could facilitate other rights cases
* Panel expected to deliver its verdict on Tuesday
* International observers give trial high marks
LIMA, April 3 (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Friday wrapped up his
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03337545.htm
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RIO DE JANEIRO Former President Alberto K. Fujimori of Peru defiantly defended himself in court on Wednesday against accusations of human rights abuses, saying that he was innocent of murder and kidnapping charges related to his government’s
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International Herald Tribune
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The iron-willed ex-president, now in poor health, has been on trial since December 2007. He is already serving a six-year prison term for abuse of power in an unrelated case.
The trial's presiding judge, Cesar San Martin, said Monday that Fujimori
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The Seferm Post
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Q&A:
Ángel Páez interviews Peruvian prosecutor AVELINO GUILLÉN
LIMA, Mar 25 (IPS) - With a sentence set to be handed down shortly in the trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) for two notorious massacres of
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Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46266
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LIMA, Peru — A guilty verdict against former President Alberto Fujimori in his murder and kidnapping trial would only strengthen his party in presidential elections in 2011, his daughter said in an interview Tuesday.
Keiko Fujimori, congresswoman and
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Centre Daily Times
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LIMA, March 19 (UPI) -- The daughter of imprisoned former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said she would pardon her father if she is elected president.
Keiko Fujimori, a Peruvian congresswoman and former first lady -- given the title at age 19 by
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/19/Perus_Keiko_Fujimori_would_pardon_her_dad/UPI-89681237475150/
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The daughter of Peru's jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori says his mother has died in Japan.
Keiko Fujimori says her grandmother Matsue died after spending weeks comatose from complications of two strokes she suffered in 2000. She said Friday
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eTaiwan News
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The trial of former President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, quietly nearing a conclusion in a Lima courtroom, has been a model process that shows how countries can deal with despotic leaders from a troubled past. In the course of a trial that began in
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/945614.html
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“(…) Mas, se as chamadas ‘ditabrandas' - caso do Brasil entre 1964 e 1985 - partiam de uma ruptura institucional e depois preservavam ou instituíam formas controladas de disputa política e acesso à Justiça -, o novo autoritarismo latino-americano,
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Global Voices Online
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/03/07/brazil-uproar-over-newpapers-editorial-on-mild-dictatorship/
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (OneWorld.net) - A forensic anthropology team has
begun to identify the victims of a 1984 massacre perpetrated by the
Peruvian military. Tens of thousands of people killed during the country's decades-long internal conflict are still
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OneWorld.net
http://us.oneworld.net/article/360565-first-victims-peruvian-massacre-identified
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LIMA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The fate of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will depend on how politicized his human rights trial becomes in its final weeks, his lead defense attorney said on Thursday.
Cesar Nakazaki said that if Fujimori is
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26276365.htm
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LIMA -- La defensa de los familiares de las víctimas de dos matanzas por las que es juzgado el ex presidente Alberto Fujimori, pidió el lunes al tribunal que haga justicia dado que el ex mandatario "no tiene el coraje" para asumir su responsabilidad
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/1320/story/895899.html
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RIGHTS-PERU:
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Dec 29 (IPS) - Members of the military and one police officer who sat on military tribunals and covered up for alleged human rights violators during the authoritarian regime of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000)
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Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45251
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