Peru sending team to urge Japan to extradite Fujimori

[dArKeR]

MEXICO CITY — Peru will send a government mission to Japan next week to request that Tokyo extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The delegation, headed by Martha Chavarri, vice foreign minister in charge of Asian affairs, will discuss the issue with Japanese officials from the foreign and justice ministries. They will be in Japan from Wednesday through Friday.

"It's very important, because this will be the first opportunity to directly request the Japanese government to extradite Fujimori," Peru's Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez was quoted by Lima-based RPP radio as saying.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=288490

AWOL is more of a 'Crimes Against Humanity' than Fujimori is!

[Judi Lynn]

1. Interesting comments just beneath the article.

It WOULD be terrific if they cobbled an extradition agreement right away.

Head henchman, Vladimiro Montesinos, who created death squads in Peru, was resourceful as "Fujimori's Rasputin:"

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The Department of Defense’s Joint Intelligence Command released this document on April 5, 2001 in response to a FOIA request made by Jeremy Bigwood. This document focuses on the aftermath of the failed November 1992 coup attempt made by the military against President Fujimori. The document reveals growing discontent within the military over the treatment of the coup plotters. The Peruvian Army appears “rife” with rumors that several coup plotters have been tortured and have been transferred to the civilian prison “Canto Grande”, due to fears that armed forces sympathizers would help them escape if they were placed in military prison. Vladimiro Montesinos reportedly supervised torture sessions attempting to force coup plotters to name opposition politicians as co-conspirators, and he is accused of delivering some of the blows himself. The document notes that while the Army has officially denied torture allegations, “the use of torture is plausible.”
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB37/index.html

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2. Thanks for the wealth of information, JudiLyn. I was especially ...

impressed by the information deleted on one of the two Documents of 8 -



I would surmise junior's AWOL records look about the same!