Peru set to send Fujimori report to Chile

[Judi Lynn]

Peru set to send Fujimori report to Chile
POSTED: 1626 GMT (0026 HKT), February 1, 2007

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) -- Peru's final report on Alberto Fujimori's extradition includes new evidence linking the former president to human rights abuses and will be handed to a Chilean judge by Monday, the chief Peruvian prosecutor said.

Peru wants Fujimori to stand trial in Lima on human rights charges, including allegations of massacres to crush Peru's Shining Path and other leftist rebels in the 1990s. It also accuses him of embezzlement.
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The 68-year-old former president, who is of Japanese descent, fled Peru for Japan in 2000 to avoid prosecution when his second term in office collapsed in a huge corruption scandal.

In November 2005, he flew from Japan to Chile, apparently to try to launch a political comeback in Peru, but he was arrested on an international warrant.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/01/peru.fujimori.reut/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Peru exhumes bodies of massacre victims as part of Fujimori extradition

Peru exhumes bodies of massacre victims as part of Fujimori extradition case
The Associated PressPublished: January 31, 2007

LIMA, Peru: Authorities gathering evidence in a human rights case against former President Alberto Fujimori on Wednesday exhumed the remains of a university professor and nine students killed in 1992 by a paramilitary death squad.

Peru is seeking to extradite Fujimori from Chile to face charges in the connection with the killings, along with other alleged rights abuses during his 1990-2000 autocratic government. Fujimori has been in Chile since 2005 after arriving there from Japan, where he had lived in exile since his regime collapsed amid a corruption scandal.

On Wednesday, the victims' relatives looked on as prosecutors and forensic specialists unearthed the remains buried in four coffins in a cemetery in central Lima, the Peruvian capital.

"Fujimori has to return to Peru to respond for the deaths of these students," Raida Condor, whose son Armando was among the victims, told The Associated Press. "He's a fugitive and he must return to this country."

Peruvian authorities allege Fujimori sanctioned the Colina paramilitary death squad that sought to eliminate collaborators of the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/01/america/LA-GEN-Peru-Exhumation.php

[SharonAnn]

2. Fujimori, another Opus Dei supporter, like Pinochet and Franco and Scalia

There's a pattern there.

Authoritarian.

Dictatorial.

Controlling.

Absolute right. Opponents are absolutely wrong and evil.