Ex-Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori has accused the government of persecution in testimony at the end of his 15-month trial for alleged human rights abuses, informs BBC Saturday.
FUJIMORI CHARGES:
1991 Barrios Altos killings: 15 dead
1992 La Cantuta killings: 10 dead
1992 illegal detention: journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer
Separate trial on corruption and illegal wiretapping charges
There was no proof, he said, that he had overseen a death squad as part of a dirty war against suspected Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.
– I completely reject that I gave any orders in an allegedly parallel system to put into practice a dirty war to defeat terrorism, he said.
Fujimori was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000.
