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ARRESTED. ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, fugitive ex-President of Peru, still popular among some for leading an early 1990s economic rebound; as he attempted to return to the country to seek re-election in defiance of an international arrest warrant; after five years in exile in Japan, where he is a citizen thanks to his Japanese-born emigrant parents; in Santiago, Chile. Fujimori faces up to 55 years in jail and $29 million in fines for alleged corruption and sanctioning of death squads during his 10-year rule...
...GRANTED. To ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, scandal-tainted former Peruvian President; a Peruvian passport, opening the possibility of a return to his native country for the first time since 2000; in Tokyo. Fujimori's diplomatic passport was invalidated after he fled to Japan following the disintegration of his government in 2000 over allegations of corruption. Born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, Fujimori has said he plans to return and run in the country's April election, although Peru's Congress has banned him from public office until...
...Fernando Rospigliosi, who oversees antiterrorism efforts. That's a key reason why Shining Path has reloaded its AK-47s now. But the group has also been aided in no small part by government hubris. After crowing that he'd vanquished Shining Path in the early '90s, then-President Alberto Fujimori enervated Peru's antiterrorism apparatus - turning his intelligence police instead on political opponents. As a result, says Rospigliosi, "we have had trouble carrying out antiterrorism actions for lack of resources." That has simply reopened the Path, a group Peruvian war-history professor Alberto Bolivar, an associate scholar at the Foreign...
...said a May fact-finding mission found no evidence the fund "knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion and forced sterilizations." PERU Family Planning More than 200,000 men and women were pressured into being sterilized by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori, an official Peruvian report revealed. Health Minister Fernando Carbone said the Fujimori government pursued its family planning program through a campaign of lies and threats. Of 510 people giving evidence to a commission of investigation, 10% said they had agreed to be sterilized after promises of food, free operations...
...murder of his wife, Bonny Bakley, who was killed minutes after the couple had finished dinner at Blake's favorite Italian restaurant; in Los Angeles. BORN. To actor JOHNNY DEPP and his wife, French actress and singer VANESSA PARADIS, a son, Jack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. CHARGED. ALBERTO FUJIMORI, former President of Peru, with using government funds to recruit congressmen to his party; in Lima, Peru. This is the fourth in a series of criminal charges against Fujimori, who has lived in self-imposed exile in his parents' native Japan since November 2000. SENTENCED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI...