http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001312183,00.html
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 08 2001 Fujimori operations 'killed hundreds' BY GABRIELLA GAMINI, SOUTH AMERICA CORRESPONDENT A PARLIAMENTARY commission in Peru is investigating reports that hundreds of poor indigenous women died after 300,000 were forcibly sterilised in a scheme backed by the disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori. Julio Velarde, the head of the commission, said the investigation was started after more than 100,000 women turned to the authorities with accounts of how they were made to have the operations by health workers sent to remote Andes villages in the 1990s. The inquiry, one of many into Señor Fujimori’s alleged misdeeds, will also study allegations that several women were left mutilated and suffering side effects after the unhygenic operations. The women’s accounts came to light after Señor Fujimori, who has fled to Japan to escape from unrelated corruption and murder charges, was forced out of office in November last year. |