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Peruvians rally to keep former president in jail

2012-10-20 57 Dailymotion

Hundreds of Peruvians rally against a potential pardon for former president Alberto Fujimori.<br/> <br />The one-time leader is serving a 25-year prison term for corruption and human rights abuses.<br/> <br />But he is battling oral cancer and Peru's current president is said to be considering a pardon.<br/> <br />That prospect upset many who lived through Fujimori's long autocratic rule.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) GISELA ORTIZ, RELATIVE OF CANTUTA MASSACRE VICTIM, SAYING:<br/> <br />"It truly makes us indignant that the long, 20-year struggle by relatives to defend our right to justice is suddenly endangered by some sort of political negotiation to benefit a murderer responsible for violating human rights."<br/> <br />Fujimori's authoritarian government collapsed in 2000 and he was later convicted of theft and using death squads to crack down on leftist insurgents.

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