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Attention, however, is still focused on the human toll. As the deaths climbed to at least 260, hope began to dwindle on Tuesday evening of finding additional survivors under the rubble. The previous night, just past 2 a.m., a university student identified as Marta was pulled alive from her collapsed dormitory after 23 hours, her life saved only because a fallen ceiling support had wedged across her bed in a position that protected her from all the other debris that came down. (See pictures of the earthquake...
...early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. The verdict makes Fujimori, 70, the first democratically elected head of state to be tried and convicted on human rights abuse charges in his own country. He was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, with fines ranging from $7,000 to $20,000 for each victim. (See the top 10 scandals...
...Fujimori insists he's innocent, and his attorneys announced his intention to appeal. In his impassioned testimony last week, he said of the tribunal, "From an ice cube they have tried to find an iceberg." Human rights watchdogs, however, say the evidence presented at Fujimori's 16-month trial, held on a police base with judges presiding, is more likely the tip of the iceberg of abuse that occurred during the early years of Fujimori's authoritarian rule. The abuses "were committed as part of a broad, systematic policy of executions and forced disappearances that [Fujimori] ordered and carried...
...turned disappear into a verb when dealing with their political opponents. He shut down Peru's Congress and judiciary in 1992; he created an "emergency" government that gave him and his spooky security chief (Vladimiro Montesinos, who himself was convicted in 2002 on a variety of corruption and human rights abuse charges) autocratic powers; and he rewrote the constitution to allow himself to be re-elected in 1995. All the while, he made sure that Peruvians knew it was Fuji who was personally handling it all - right down to the pressure levels of the water pumps. His power reached...
...Tuesday's verdict, say human rights watchdogs, is a warning to authoritarian leaders everywhere that the age of impunity has passed. And when human rights records are scrutinized, water pumps and new streets are not the basis on which caudillo leaders will be judged...