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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Fujimori was the first head of a Latin American state of "east Asian" descent. That ethnicity ought be clear from his surname. The war carried out by the state against the various factions in rebellion or insurgency left many hundreds of thousands of people dead, but the commission for truth and reconciliation noted that the vast majority of those came from 2 indiginous ethnic groups.
As some would suggest that some of Lima when polled would welcome a return by Fujimori or his daughter to the presidency at the next elections. I thought to mention "ethnicity".
The legal ban on Fujimori holding office has stood since his resignation in 2000. He resigned by fax whilst on a visit to Japan. The Peruvian congress had just begun to realise the extent of corruption over which his regime presided & that it compounded the shock of revealations of a compulsory sterilisation program. [1996 and 2000, surgeons carried out 215,227 sterilising operations on women and 16,547 male vasectomies. This compared to 80,385 sterilisations and 2,795 vasectomies over the previous three years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2148793.stm ]
Those who were sterilised belonged overwhelmingly to one indiginous ethnic group.
Under the terms of the extradition warrent approved by Chile, which may be read through 2 links in the article above, Fujimori will go on trial for ordering death squads who carried out two notorious massacres—known as Barrios Altos and La Cantuta university. He will not go on trial for sterilisation. nor ethnocide. nor what was genocide. If he serves his sentance he may hypothetically stand for election at some far future date.
The majority of those deaths he will stand trial for were of citizens belonging to the dominant-European mixed-descent group of Peru's middle and upper class. That group is pretty typical of the "haves" in South America, its differences from Chile or Argentina simply being less German & Italian influence and more French and British (Scottish), those ethnic legacies are still reflected in the religious orders who operate private schools in Lima as much as the phone directory.
If his supporters can bring his daughter Keiko Fujimori to punt the next presidential elections
as those damn aspidistra balanced types of wikipedia pages would have you believe is likely [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori#Popular_S...pport ] she will undoubtedly run against Ollante Humala in the primaries. For those who do not recall the last Peruvian general election which almost saw Humala elected & thus have no idea of his controversial background - Humala's brother founded the "etnocacerista" movement, which is a pro-ethnic style platform which promotes indiginous interest on grounds of race. It borrowed extensively from the symbology of European 1930's nazism & though was quasi-Bolivarian and certainly far-left in economic philosophy represented at once a natural response to the ethnocide of the Fujimori years as much as the most perverse twist in the dialectic which is South American socialist evolution. [ his wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala - he of course appeared on the mystery tuna tins after the Peru 2007 earthquake http://indymedia.ie/article/83812?&condense_comments=fa...5122-
But by that stage the unrelenting work of socialists, of Bolivarian and Anarchists, Chavs and Liberal democrats will have ensured the nastier edges of revenge are removed by the simple writing of justice..,
For I as I hope all readers, would prefer race have nothing to with the future of Peru as any state. The most succesfully ethnically mixed and integrated nation-state on earth is Brazil. We could all do well, all of humanity and certainly all of Europe - from Irish open counter retailer to Polish strong farmer, from eastern German dentists to Portuguese tree doctors, from Icelandic masseur to Rumanian doctors, from A to Z were we to repeat the beautiful mix of Brazil in future generations.
further suggested reading on the last Peruvian presidential elections (2 of my other articles)-
for God, "my" Patria & the Coca growers - http://indymedia.ie/article/77484
To vote or not to Vote http://indymedia.ie/article/75334
the Extradition file (spanish pdf)
http://www.andina.com.pe/edpespeciales/especiales/fallo...i.pdf
http://origin.elcomercioperu.com.pe/ediciononline/HTML/...N.pdf
the Commission on Truth & Reconciliation Final Report - (spanish language multiple pdf & zip files) http://www.cverdad.org.pe/ifinal/index.php
last link to the 2003 Interpol warrent (english)
read about it here in english. The trial was short yet eventful, the usually calm Fujimoro began with an outburst claiming he had never done anything wrong, (which didn't really impress anyone) then suffered high blood pressure (which got him a few minutes of recess) & now he's off to jail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7139719.stm
Peru is at high emotions this evening (their time) as reaction to the infiltration of Fujimori supporters at a commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of Peru's Truth & Reconciliation process ceremony to unveil a monument to the 69,000 dead. The Fujimorists shouted military slogans whose effects to hurt are deeper considering the recent military rule the Amazonian indiginous communities experienced whilst fighting (succesfully) attempts by President Garcia to sell off their hydrocarbon resources by decree.
Time it seems does not heal all.
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2008/08/28/fujimoristas_irrumpen_....html
http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/ediciononline/html/2008-08....html
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of human rights crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison today, 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.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0407/...1.htm
http://peru.indymedia.org/