(Prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here.)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
News Flash: Fujimori sentenced to 25 years
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was convicted today of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The judgment by the 3-judge panel is a historical first: never before has a Latin American court found its country's democratically elected president guilty of rights abuses. Fujimori was specifically found guilty of "ordering a military death squad to carry out two massacres that killed 25 people during his 1990-2000 rule." Overall, close to 70,000 people died during two decades of conflict.
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here.)
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here.)
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This is a remarkable day not only for Peruvians but to everyone that feels that justice in third world countries is almost unreachable. It is the responsibility of every Peruvian to educate the ones that still blinded by the corruption Fujimori spread around the country, so that they see how evil this character is, and how much damage he caused to our Peru financially and morally.
It is a shame that many Peruvians are supporting the candidacy of his daughter, someone who has not political experience, and who was part of his father’s corrupted government, who will reverse the guilty sentence and let this evil doer free.
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