2 Describe Massacre at Fujimori Trial

[struggle4progress]

Source: Associated Press

By CARLA SALAZAR

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hooded men with machine guns burst into a Lima tenement and killed 15 people at a barbecue, including an 8-year-old boy, two survivors of the 1991 attack testified Friday at the murder trial of former President Alberto Fujimori.

Fujimori, 69, is facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly ordering the massacre and the 1992 killings of nine university students and a professor. He is also charged with ordering the kidnappings of a prominent journalist and a businessman ...

Natividad Condorcahuana, 51, one of four survivors of the massacre, recounted that on the night of Nov. 3, 1991, hooded men with automatic weapons with silencers burst into the inner patio of the downtown Lima tenement.

One of the men at the barbecue "confronted them and said, 'What's up, chief?' and their answer was to shoot him," said Condorcahuana, who was shot 11 times, including a bullet wound to the head ...

Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtP48mU2rMfcYNwH108_0vo4NEdgD8TVDGCG0

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Friday, January 4, 2008
Fujimori first conviction.
Noticias Aliadas. Jan 4, 2008

... Fujimori, who was extradited from Chile on Sept. 22, faces three trials for human rights violations and corruption charges.

His first trial, which includes the death squad murders of 15 people .. began on Dec. 10, a day before he was sentenced for abuse of power ...

... The Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres were carried out by the military death squad Grupo Colina.

Fujimori has denied he knew about Colina at the time of the crimes, but he did say that he signed congratulatory letters to Colina members and recommended their promotions, but said he did not read the content of the letters. He also denied having close ties or a friendship with Montesinos ...

http://www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=5451

[struggle4progress]

1. Fujimori trial resumes with testimony from massacre witness (AFP)

... Peruvian reporter Gustavo Gorriti, at the time was the correspondent for the Madrid daily El Pais, told the court that his arrest had been instigated by Fujimori's right-hand man and intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos.

He said Peru's top general at the time Nicolas Hermoza told him as much in prison, where Gorriti interviewed him while investigating his own arrest after Fujimori's downfall in 2000.

Fujimori, 69, is on trial for allegedly being behind an army hit squad that killed 25 people in two massacres, in 1991 and 1992.

Gorriti said he was abducted by hooded soldiers on April 5, 1992, when Fujimori shut down the opposition-led Congress, suspended the constitution and assumed dictatorial powers in what became known as the "self-coup." ...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZB6ecA8CSxHPhQ0jpT6H5_XdYHg

[struggle4progress]

2. Peru reporter says Fujimori's guards abducted him (Reuters)

Fri 4 Jan 2008, 22:45 GMT

... Gustavo Gorriti, testifying at Fujimori's trial on human rights crimes, said 10 men with machine guns snatched him from his house in the middle of the night.

He said he became terrified when he realized he had been taken to the offices of the Peruvian army's intelligence agency for interrogation.

"It was a place where very few people who went in came out alive," said Gorriti, who had criticized the former president's government prior to the kidnapping ...

He said he was targeted because he had published stories tying Fujimori's spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, to corruption and drug traffickers ...

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN04425518.html

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3. Death Threats Made Against Human Rights Lawyer in Fujimori Trial

4 January 2008

... "The death threats being made against Gloria Cano could jeopardize one of the most important trials in the history of Peru," said Giulia Tamayo, a trial observer appointed by Amnesty International.

"We demand that Peruvian authorities urgently investigate the death threats and establish a protection plan for all of the lawyers involved in the process," stated Tamayo.

According to information received by Amnesty International, APRODEH, a Peruvian human rights association, received and anonymous phone call on December 18 in which a person said, "We are going to kill you because you are terrorists, Gloria Cano, we are going to kill her because she is a terrorist." Other insults and threats were reported by the organization.

Giulia Tamayo, a Spanish/Peruvian human rights lawyer has been observing the case against Alberto Fujimori since December 26 ...

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-5420-law-order-peru-death-threats-made-against-human-rights-lawyer-fujimori-trial

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4. Fujimori May Get Ten More Years

Lima, Jan 4 (Prensa Latina) The attorney general of Peru will demand an additional ten-year prison sentence for former president, Alberto Fujimori in a new trial. This time it is for corruption, said the prosecutor, Jose Pelaez.

The magistrate explained that the former president must pay for his responsibility in bribery of opposition deputies to change positions and his manipulation of the mass media.

The process also includes accusations for telephone spying of those opposing the president, of Japanese origin, who was a hard line president from 1990 to 2000.

The trial is expected to begin in a few months and, if the prosecution demand is accepted, it would be added to the six year prison sentence of Fujimori who was earlier sentenced for an illegal raid ...

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B0EBA11D5-102F-4344-ACE9-88C8C7841D07%7D)&language=EN

[Auntie Bush]

5. Here's a K and R for ya.

[burrowowl]

6. K&R

Hopefully, Fujimori will receive his just due!

[acmavm]

7. I don't know. I'm always sceptical about whether or not there's justice

here. I mean, how old is the guy? In his 70s. He killed young people and babies. He then ran around and lived a high old life for how long after he put his victims in the ground. I don't mean that he should just be let go, but surely justice means more than taking the old bastard and locking him up for just the last few years of his life? He should be isolated from all humanity. Have all his assets seized, every last one. And that's still not enough.

I understand the 'better late than never' theory, and I guess it applies here. But its like old Pinochet. He lived the high life for decades after his crimes. Now the extradite an old man and 'convict' him of crimes against his people.

(Then there's the ultiimate ghoul, Henry Kissinger, who's never had to pay a day in his life.)

[Judi Lynn]

8. He's a bold and slippery monster. These people will pay, somehow,

and it may be their Day of Judgement will play out over a long time, but eventually the world will grow strong enough to repel the crafty, sly, deceitful, ruthless villains who have been buying up some parts of the poor population, to intimidate and terrorize other poor people to keep everyone from overthrowing them.

Eventually it seems only natural that the entire world will become strong and resolved enough to take back its stolen free air, sunlight, peace of mind, security, and those who actually would live at the expense of the multitudes are going to keep each other company in prison.

Our own newspapers and tv news people have lied to us for generations, now, about what has been happening right within the Americas. Embedded within one of struggle4progress's links is the following:

While in power from 1990 to 2000, Fujimori defeated the guerrillas and brought order to a chaotic economy. But critics said he violated human rights to end a 20-year war in which nearly 70,000 people died or disappeared.
(snip)

Apparently it takes a "critic" to bring up facts, according to our genius-class journalists.

Most people in the U.S. have absolutely no idea whatsoever of the unbearable slaughter which has been going on in the Western Hemisphere all this time, and at the hands of graduates of men brought right to this country and specially trained in torture, etc. at the School of the Americas.

What a shame our own media chose, and choose to ignore their moral responsibility.