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Peru's former leader on trial in leftists' deaths
Associated Press
Published December 11, 2007
LIMA, Peru - Waving his arms in outrage and shouting that he is innocent, former President Alberto Fujimori went on trial Monday on charges of using a death squad to kill leftist guerrillas and collaborators. It is the first time in Peru's history that a former president faces a trial for crimes allegedly committed during his administration - and one of the few cases of a Latin American leader being tried after leaving office. The case is stirring mixed emotions in a country where many still admire Fujimori for defeating a bloody insurgency. Fujimori faces charges he authorized the 1992 death-squad slayings of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University, and the 1991 killings of 15 people in a tenement in Lima's Barrios Altos neighborhood. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison. He also is charged with ordering the kidnapping of a prominent journalist and a businessman, who were interrogated by army intelligence agents and released. Fujimori, 69, denies any involvement.
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