Peru to Step Up Fight to Extradite Fujimori

[struggle4progress]

Feb 18, 2005 — By Marco Aquino

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peru will step up efforts to extradite disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori from self-imposed exile in Japan by providing more evidence against him, including documents showing he authorized torture, the state attorney investigating him said on Friday.

Attempts have so far failed to get Fujimori sent back to Peru after he fled in 2000 at the height of a huge corruption scandal.

Peru requested his extradition in 2003 and says it will give Japan until June to reply to its request or take its case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Peru says Fujimori is politically responsible for 25 murders by death squads and state attorney Antonio Maldonado said on Friday that the former president tortured his political opponents. <snip>

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=513421

[Downtown Hound]

1. I hope they get him

After all the torture and wrongful imprisonments he inflicted, including American woman Lori Berenson, he deserves everything coming to him.

[Warpy]

2. I find this story an oddly hopeful one.

If the Gannon/Guckert scandal manages to bust this crew wide open and get even formerly tame GOP Congressmen asking tough questions, mabye Fuckwit will flee to Saudi Arabia.

Hey, I can dream, can't I?