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Fujimori pleads for his life: a return to prison means a “death sentence”

Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:25 UTC
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Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed on Thursday that a return to prison would be a “death sentence,” the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity. Fujimori, 80, addressed a plea to Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and the country's judiciary in a video recorded at his bedside. Read full article

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  • chronic

    This is what I don't get: Communists kill tens of millions and are venerated. The right kills a few million and they are imprisoned and executed.

    Where is the equity?

    Lol.

    Oct 05th, 2018 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DemonTree

    Veneration of communists: https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2017/03/lenintoppling.gif

    The right-wing dictatorships in Latin America took power by force and murdered anyone who opposed them, while the elected left-wing governments that followed prosecuted the murderers according to the law and put them in jail. Where is the equity?

    Oct 05th, 2018 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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