Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has assumed his own defense, and ensures that no proof of his guilt for alleged violations of Human Rights. The ruling comes after a year of interrogations.
In the first of his two prior to the expected sentence, I speak to the panel of judges saying that during his 10 years managing the peace returned to Peru fighting the inferno of terrorism.
Behind a podium with a strong voice on occasion, added to economic development in Peru. Nobody has been able to make a single order and proof that I have not been able to do because they simply do not exist, because as I said from the beginning, I am innocent! Said Fujimori, emphasizing his shaking hands in the trial that was broadcast direct multi-channel television.
Fujimori is being tried for aggravated homicide and kidnapping over the killing of 25 people, including a Convention, by a military squad on suspicion of being guerrillas and abduction of a businessman and an opposition journalist.
Prosecutors seek 30 years in prison for Fujimori, 70 years, and the decision could herald a mid-April to end one of the most important in the history of this country, according to judicial sources. Fujimori said that when he was the government plunged the country into a violent civil war and the worst economic crisis in its history, trying to justify its policy according to which anti-bodies derived Human Rights in several cases of abuse against innocent people.
Noworst president inherited a country that I received in July 1990, Peru was that I inherited a disaster (…) problems on all fronts, was an extremely difficult country to govern, perhaps the most difficult to govern in our republican history, says the former president who was wearing glasses and wearing a blue tie and dark terno.
While he defended two of her four children watched him fixedly in the courtroom packed with supporters of former president and family of victims in the massacres. I challenge that if taken over and again, I hurt all deaths in the soul and the excesses that were isolated in the opposite direction to the policy of pacification, the cornerstone of the victory over terrorism said Fujimori.
The former president was elected president in 1990. Laureated beat writer Mario Vargas Llosa in the middle of the leftist Shining Path guerrillas and in the midst of an acute economic crisis that saw or hyperinflation of 7482%.
The trial of Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, began in December 2007 after he was extradited from Chile, where he arrived in 2005 after being a fugitive from Peruvian justice system for five years in Tokyo.
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