April 8, 2009

Ex-President of Peru Is Convicted of Role in 1992 Student Killings

By Mike Ceaser

Bogotá, Colombia

The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on Tuesday and sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment for various human-rights abuses, including the 1992 killings of nine university students and a professor at Enrique Guzmán y Valle National Education University.

Mr. Fujimori, now 70, was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, and enjoyed great popularity for his law-and-order policies against Maoist guerrillas, but his government was also criticized for

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