Sunday, March 09, 2003
Interpol wants Alberto Fujimori for murder. Interpol reissued an international arrest warrant charging former Peru President Alberto Fujimori with murder after receiving additional information from the government, officials said Saturday.
Interpol suspended the original warrant Feb. 27 and gave Peruvian officials 14 days to provide evidence tying Mr. Fujimori to a paramilitary death squad and to demonstrate that the charges were not politically motivated.
Peruvian Justice Minister Fausto Alvarado told RPP radio Saturday that officials sent evidence to Interpol headquarters in Paris and the warrant — on charges of murder, causing grievous bodily harm and forced disappearances — was reinstated.
Prosecutors have accused Mr. Fujimori of authorizing the 1991 massacre of 15 revelers at a barbecue in a poor Lima neighborhood and the 1992 killings of nine university students and a professor.
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