(Vatican Radio) The Family of ailing former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, are
appealing to current President Ollanta Humala to officially pardon him, as his health
is increasingly frail. Doctors treating Alberto Fujimori say his gastric problems
are becoming more severe. He's just been treated for a bleeding ulcer in hospital.
In 2009 he was convicted of ordering a death squad to murder 25 people. as well
as the kidnapping of a journalist and a businessman. Since then there have been three
more trials, involving accusations of corruption.
Alberto FujimorI was President
of Peru from 1990 to 2000. In that time he broke the power of the guerrilla group
Shining Path. Obeying his orders, an elite military squad strormed the Japanese Embassy
in Lima in 1997, saving hostages and killing all 14 of the MRA guerrillas who'd done
this.
If Fujimori's Daughter Keiko had won the Presidentcy in 2011, she would
have instantly freed he Father. But she lost in the second round runoff, and now it's
up to President Ollanta Humala who defeated her, to either free 74 year old Alberto
Fujimori....or keep him behind bars. Listen to James Blears' report