Peru ex-President Fujimori dies at 86

Was convicted for human rights abuses

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Lima (Peru), Updated At : 11:19 AM Sep 13, 2024 IST

FILE PHOTO: President Alberto Fujimori of Peru speaks at a press conference in New York, U.S. May 20, 1996. REUTERS/Peter Morgan/File Photo

Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86.

Fujimori, who governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand in 1990-2000, was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people.

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