Murder Charges Sought Against Fujimori
Peru’s attorney general has asked Congress to pursue homicide charges against former President Alberto Fujimori in a state-sponsored massacre in 1991.
Atty. Gen. Nelly Calderon filed a “constitutional denunciation” against Fujimori late Wednesday for the killings of 15 people in a tenement building in Lima’s Barrios Altos district. The slayings were allegedly carried out by the Colina death squad, an army intelligence unit run by Vladimiro Montesinos, who was then Peru’s spy chief.
Human rights groups say the squad was formed by Montesinos to combat rising attacks by guerrillas. The victims in the 1991 killings were suspected of ties to leftist rebels.
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