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January 11, 2018

Peru: Families of Death Squad Victims Protest Pardon of Alberto Fujimori
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And in Peru, the family members of victims of the former dictatorship
are speaking out, after former President Alberto Fujimori was pardoned
by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and released from prison. Fujimori
had been imprisoned for crimes including ordering massacres by death
squads in the 1990s. This is Gisela Ortiz Perea, sister of Luis Enrique
Ortiz, who was one of nine university students murdered, along with a
professor, at the La Cantuta massacre in 1992.

Gisela Ortiz Perea: "I'm a close relative of a victim. I saw with my own
eyes these criminals. I experienced this story, this horrible death that
occured in my family, this suffering that is engraved in my memory, year
after year. It is awful to constantly have in my mind the face of the
criminals. And the most horrible thing is that there are people who
continue to call us terrorists."



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