[NYTr] Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Fujimori to Summary Executions

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National Security Archive - Dec 10, 2007
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FUJIMORI ON TRIAL 

Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Fujimori to Summary Executions

Washington D.C., December 10, 2007 - As disgraced former president
Alberto Fujimori goes on trial in Lima, Peru, for human rights
atrocities, the National Security Archive posted a declassified
Defense Intelligence Agency cable tying him directly to the executions
of unarmed rebels who had surrendered after the seizure of the
residence of Japanese ambassador in 1997. "President Fujimori issued
the order to 'take no prisoners,'" states the secret "roger channel"
intelligence cable. "Because of this even MRTA [Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement members] who were taken alive did not survive
the rescue operation."

The new DIA cable was released on the Archive Web site along with
other declassified documents that shed light on human rights crimes
under Fujimori's government, his close ties to his intelligence
chieftain, Vladimiro Montecinos, and the two cases for which the
imprisoned former president is now being prosecuted: the death squad
kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and one professor at
La Cantuta University in July 1992, and the massacre of a group of
15 leftists and an eight-year-old child during a neighborhood
community barbeque in Barrios Altos in November 1991.

The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
by analysts at the Archive's Peru Documentation Project. The project
has provided declassified evidence drawn from U.S. records to
Peruvian human rights advocates and officials for over a decade.

"The prosecution of Alberto Fujimori is nothing less than a historic
event in the history of the human rights movement in Latin America,"
according to Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst on Latin America at
the Archive. "It is a major step toward truth and justice in Peru
and the Western Hemisphere."

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