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Peru's Fujimori gets 25 years prison for massacres
Tue Apr 7, 2009 6:51pm EDT
Reuters
By Teresa Cespedes and Terry Wade
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. The verdict is likely to have far-reaching political implications for Peru.
Full Article (http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5363RH20090407)
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Fujimori dealt with Commies in a brutal and swift manner. America could use a strongman to rid them of commies and lefties. :evillaugh: