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January 12, 2018

Peru: Protests Grow over Pardon of Former Dictator Alberto Fujimori
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In Peru, thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Lima
Thursday demanding that President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski step down for
pardoning the country's former dictator, convicted murderer Alberto
Fujimori. At the time of his pardon on Christmas Eve, Fujimori had been
imprisoned for crimes including ordering massacres by death squads in
the 1990s. This is protester Eliana Carlín.

Eliana Carlín: "Alberto Fujimori still has some trials pending. He has a
trial in Pativilca, a place where he actually ordered to kill a group of
farmers. And with the pardon that he just received, he's not going to
respond for that crime. And we think that that's not justice."



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