Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has died. The 86-year-old died as a result of cancer. “After a long battle with cancer, our father Alberto Fujimori has just passed away to meet the Lord,” his children Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori wrote on the online service X.
Fujimori was released in early December on health grounds from prison, where he had served 16 years for crimes against humanity. He ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000. In 2009, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, in part for massacres committed in the early 1990s by death squads in the fight against the Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path.
Stumbled upon bribery scandal
In addition, tens of thousands of indigenous women were forcibly sterilized to reduce the number of children they had. They were seen as an obstacle to development. Although the constitution only allowed for two terms, he ran for a third term in 2000.
Escape to Japan
Fujimori won the election, but soon afterward stumbled over the Montesinos scandal. His intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos was filmed bribing an opposition lawmaker to persuade him to join Fujimori’s party. Fujimori initially went to Japan, but was arrested during a trip to Chile and extradited to Peru.
Source: Krone
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