Well, well, well… Idi Amin escaped the rap. So did Augusto Pinochet. But Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic didn’t. And now Alberto Fujimori–who foolishly left his safe haven provided by the Japanese government and has wound up getting his. Ii kimi da.<\/p>\n
See why Debito.org has something against Fujimori here.<\/a> Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n Fujimori convicted LIMA \u2014 Former President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday on a charge of abuse of authority stemming from an illegal search he ordered as his government imploded in scandal seven years ago.<\/p>\n Supreme Court Judge Pedro Guillermo Urbina declared that Mr. Fujimori was guilty of abusing his power when he ordered an aide to pose as a prosecutor and search the luxury apartment of the wife of his spy chief without a warrant in November 2000.<\/p>\n Mr. Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000 before fleeing to Japan as his government collapsed, faces a total of seven human rights and corruption charges in multiple trials.<\/p>\n On Monday, an indignant Mr. Fujimori shouted his innocence and waved his arms in outrage as he went on trial in a separate case on charges he authorized an army death squad to kill leftist rebels and collaborators. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted for his alleged role in the killings, which came amid a government crackdown on a bloody Maoist insurgency.<\/p>\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n Fujimori convicted and sentenced in illegal search<\/p>\n Peru’s former president gets six years behind bars for abuse of power. He still faces charges on other serious counts. LIMA, PERU — Former President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of abuse of power Tuesday and sentenced to six years in prison after a judge found him responsible for an illegal search at the home of the wife of his onetime intelligence chief.<\/p>\n It was the first conviction in a series of criminal charges Fujimori has faced since being extradited from Chile in September.<\/p>\n Human rights advocates have hailed the multiple cases against Fujimori as blows against impunity. But supporters of the ex-president call him the victim of political persecution.<\/p>\n The abuse of power charge is among the least serious faced by Fujimori, but his conviction was a setback for the ex-president.<\/p>\n His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, a popular congresswoman, was visibly upset afterward, and called the decision “unjust.”<\/p>\n However, she added that her father had conceded the “irregularity” of the disputed search, which took place in the waning, convulsive days of his administration.<\/p>\n The ex-president, whose legal team had hoped for a suspended sentence, indicated that he would file a partial appeal of the conviction.<\/p>\n The conviction came a day after Fujimori stunned Peruvians with an emotional outburst in a separate, far more serious, case in which he stands accused of dispatching death squads to kill 25 suspected leftists. The ex-president faces a 30-year prison term in that case.<\/p>\n During Monday’s court session, Fujimori, 69, shouted that he was “totally innocent” of ordering the killings and argued that his decisive tactics had saved Peru from terrorism and economic ruin.<\/p>\n The former president also faces charges of kidnapping, corruption and bribery.<\/p>\n Fujimori, who is being held in a special lockup without bail, was subdued in court Tuesday as the judge took three hours to read his findings.<\/p>\n As the ex-leader was being led away, local media reported, he flashed a smile at his three children, who were watching proceedings from behind a glass partition.<\/p>\n The search at issue took place Nov. 7, 2000, in the former apartment of the wife of Vladimiro Montesinos, Fujimori’s shadowy spymaster. At the time, Montesinos was a fugitive in a mushrooming corruption case that would ultimately topple Fujimori’s government. Montesinos is now jailed here and, like Fujimori, facing multiple trials and life behind bars.<\/p>\n Prosecutors suspect that Fujimori ordered an aide to conduct the warrantless search in an eleventh-hour effort to collect videos or other evidence that could have implicated his administration in corruption. Montesinos, a purported master of blackmail, was known to have made clandestine videotapes of lawmakers and others receiving bribes.<\/p>\n Fujimori eventually fled Peru and filed his resignation by fax from Japan, his parents’ homeland.<\/p>\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n
\nAssociated Press
\nCanadian Globe and Mail, December 11, 2007 at 6:15 PM EST
\nhttp:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20071211.wfuji1211\/BNStory\/International\/home<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n
\nBy Adriana Le\u00f3n and Patrick J. McDonnell, Special to The Los Angeles Times
\nDecember 12, 2007
\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-fuji12dec12,1,4508479.story?coll=la-headlines-world<\/a><\/p>\n