Homicide Charges Filed Against Ex-President
Peru’s attorney general filed homicide charges against disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, linking him to two massacres by paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s, a statement said.
Fujimori is in self-imposed exile in Japan, and Peru hopes that the charges will prompt the Asian nation to extradite him.
Prosecutors allege that Fujimori “coauthored” the killings by the death squad known as the Colina group, the attorney general’s office statement said.
The Colina group is accused of gunning down 15 people in Lima, the capital, in 1991. Group members were also linked to the kidnapping and killings of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University in 1992.
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