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- Fujimori Wants the Death Penalty Back/ED-LP
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- from El Diario La Prensa
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- edlp 11/10
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- FUJIMORI WANTS THE DEATH PENALTY BACK FOR GUZMAN
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- Peru's President Alberto Fujimori has asked that Senero Luminoso
- leader Abimael Guzman be exeucted by a firing squad. Guzman is
- currently serving a life sentence on a island in the Pacific.
- Fujimori said in a television broadcast that Guzman should die by
- firing squad "becuase we have to carry out justice." He said
- Guzman and his followers were responsible for the death of 25,000
- people and $22 billion dollars in damages over 12 years of
- violence, and that his government would look for a mechanism by
- which it may execute Guzman. According to the Peruvian
- constitution the death penalty can be applied only in cases of
- "betrayal of the homeland in time of war."
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- The maximum penalty for someone convicted of being a terrorist is
- life imprisonment. Previously Fujimori had announced the
- possibility of a referendum to determine whether or not the death
- penalty should be imposed in cases of heads of terrorist
- organizations as part of the November 22 elections for members of
- Constituent Congress. However, because of pressure from opposition
- critics and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA),
- Fujimori announced the referendum would take place on anotehr
- occasion. No date was announced.
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- Fujimori said his government would do away with the MRTA by
- mid-1993 and that peace would be brought to the country before his
- term is over in July of 1995. (AP 11/10)
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- translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News
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