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LIMA (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday, the first time a democratically elected Latin American president has been found guilty in his own country of such offenses.
A three-judge panel convicted him of ordering a military death squad to carry out two massacres that killed 25 people during his 1990-2000 rule, when he was battling communist guerrillas. Nearly 70,000 people died in two decades of conflict in the Andean country.
Once lauded as a hero, Fujimori, 70, could spend the rest of his life in prison. He can file an appeal, but the verdict is likely to have far-reaching political implications for Peru.
"He was the president who saved our country from terrorism," the former president's daughter Keiko Fujimori, a presidential hopeful and popular lawmaker, said as she called for supporters to march in the streets to protest the verdict.
It is very typical for strongmen, with gigantic macho Latino attitudes to like to control everything. It is even more common for wealthy big shots from North American or European companies to bribe and use their domestic connections with natives to ensure they get what they want.Well, as you can read in more detail at this post from IncaKolaNews, the journalist who published the photos of Monterrico Metals torturing himself and others is now receiving death threats on his personal cell phone. This is very common in Peru. I was young at the time but I vividly remember the fear in the eyes of my family members when my Peruvian uncle, Lucho Iberico helped break the Fujimori scandal (where video's where made public of Montesinos bribing Peru's elite). To all readers keep this story alive and knowledge of this story alive, so that this company and the people responsible for these horrible things get what they deserve (Andrew Bristow, Richard Ralph).
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