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Congressional Commission to Prove Fujimori's Involvement in Massacres
A specially appointed congressional commission is to present to the Peruvian Congress Monday evening its findings that deposed president Alberto Fujimori was involved in two massacres committed by a hit-squad set up under his 1990- 2000 rule.
These new charges are an effort to exert pressure on Japan to extradite disgraced Fujimori, 62, who fled to Japan last November after he entered his controversial third presidential period, which is when the corruption network of the now jailed presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos was uncovered.
Fujimori resigned his presidency via fax from Tokyo, but the Peruvian Congress rejected this request and indicted him for dereliction of duty.
Japan, which doesn't allow the extradition of its citizens by law, recognized Fujimori's Japanese citizenship four months ago. He was registered as a Japanese citizen by his parents at Japan's consulate in Peru.
Since nine months of corruption-related investigations have not uncovered much, there are efforts under way to indict him for human rights violations.
According to the special report to congress, Fujimori " established a secret policy to implement a program of systematic human rights abuses as part of an anti-subversive strategy."
This strategy was operated by the National Intelligence Service, headed by Montesinos, through the 35-strong death squad known as " Colina." The report claims Fujimori authorized its operations, including two massacres in 1991 and 1992.
In 1991, a masked commando killed 15 people during a party and in 1992, it kidnapped and executed nine students and a professor.
The murder of the 15 party-goers, including an eight-year-old boy, mistaken for leftist rebels in the Barrios Altos district of Lima, is considered one of the worst atrocities committed under the 1990-2000 rule of Fujimori.
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