If Liz were Queen

QUEEN’S COMMENTS: I read today that a special tribunal convicted former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of murder and kidnapping today for death squad activities during his increasingly autocratic 10-year rule.

Fujimori has already been sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of power and still faces two corruption trials on charges including bribing lawmakers and paying off a TV station.

In its first bloody raid, the military death squad Fujimori was convicted of authorizing killed 15 people _ including an 8-year-old _ with silencer-equipped machine guns during a raid on a barbecue in July 1991 in the Barrios Altos district.

Seven months later, in July 1992, the so-called Colina group “disappeared ” nine students and a leftist professor at La Cantuta university.

Fujimori was also convicted of two 1992 kidnappings: the 10-day abduction of businessman Samuel Dyer and the 24-hour abduction of Gustavo Gorriti, a leading journalist who had criticized the president’s shuttering of the opposition-led Congress and courts.

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