LIMA.- In a court decision issued Wednesday, a court banned the former president Alberto Fujimori leave Peru during the next nine months. The prosecution points to him as the intellectual author of the massacre of six peasants in 1992, perpetrated by a military detachment under his knowledge.
Despite this measure, the transitory supraprovincial liquidating criminal court of Lima rejected the prosecutor’s request for the house arrest of Fujimori, 85 years old. He argued that the former president requires “timely assistance for specialized care” due to ailments typical of his age.
It should be remembered that Fujimori was released in December after spending 16 years in prison, thanks to a presidential pardon in 2017. This controversial decision by the Constitutional Court generated controversy by failing to comply with a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Complication for Fujimori
Fujimori was previously convicted of being the direct perpetrator of the death of 25 Peruvians, including an 8-year-old boy, and now faces charges related to the massacre of six peasants in 1992. His situation is complicated after the conviction of Vladimiro Montesinoshis former spy chief, who admitted his participation in the same events.
Montesinos, imprisoned since 2001, received a sentence of 19 years and eight months in prison for being the direct perpetrator of the murders of the six farmers. Unlike Montesinos, Fujimori has not acknowledged the accusation, and the trial continues with the prosecution requesting 25 years in prison for the former president.
According to the accusation, the farmers were violently removed from their homes by the military group known as the Colina group, and murdered in crop fields in the city of Pativilca, north of Lima. This clandestine military group used war tactics in the fight against the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso, claiming the lives of more than 50 civilians during the Fujimori government (1990-2000), according to the complaint.
Among the victims was an intelligence agent suspected of leaking information to the press, as well as an opposition journalist.
Source: With information from AP
