"Peru's Fujimori Gets 25 years Prison For Massacres"

“Peru’s Fujimori gets 25 years prison for massacres”

—April 8, 2009⁴²²

Alberto Fujimori was a ruthless dictator who was found guilty by his own people of carrying out military death-squad massacres, and was previously condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Americas and State Department Human Rights reports. No matter that he was heavily funded by the United States by way of numerous military advisers and trainers, Navy Seals and Green Berets, along with a slew of arms and equipment, surveillance flights, radar stations and more.⁴²³ The official explanation for supporting him and his civil war, where nearly 70,000 people died, was that America was fighting the war on drugs. This was the alleged explanation even though many people in Fujimori’s administration were directly engaged in the drug trade. Even Fujimori’s closest advisor, Vladimir Montesino, was a drug kingpin, and was on the CIA payroll for many years.⁴²⁴