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Key dates in Fujimori's rise and fall
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Key dates in former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's rise, fall and trial for murder and kidnapping:
• June 1990: A university president and political unknown, Fujimori is elected president in stunning upset of novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
• April 1992: Fujimori assumes dictatorial powers, closing opposition-controlled Congress and courts. Most Peruvians approve.
• September 1992: Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman is captured, marking the beginning of the end of the bloody Maoist movement.
• November 2000: Fujimori flees to his ancestral Japan and faxes in his resignation after leaked videotapes show his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing opposition lawmakers.
• November 2005: In a gamble aimed at reigniting his political career in Peru, Fujimori flies to Chile, where he is arrested.
• September 2007: Chile's Supreme Court extradites Fujimori to stand trial on human rights and corruption charges.
• Dec. 10, 2007: Fujimori proclaims his innocence as his trial begins in the military death-squad slayings of 25 people thought to be rebel sympathizers in separate operations in 1991 and 1992.
• Dec. 11, 2007: Fujimori is sentenced to six years in prison in an unrelated case for ordering the illegal search of the apartment of Montesino's wife in 2000.
• June 5, 2008: Doctors remove a precancerous lesion from Fujimori's tongue.
• June 30, 2008: Montesinos, on trial separately for authorizing the military death squad, testifies that neither he nor Fujimori is responsible for the killings.
• September 2008: The court cuts the length and frequency of trial sessions after doctors determine Fujimori has an elevated risk of suffering a deadly blood clot from poor circulation.
• January 2009: In closing statements, prosecutors say Fujimori and Montesinos built a parallel "apparatus of power" that fought terror with terror.
• April 3, 2009: In final plea, Fujimori says he has no regrets for the security policies that crushed the Shining Path. He calls the charges against him political persecution.
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Key dates in former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's rise, fall and trial for murder and kidnapping:
• June 1990: A university president and political unknown, Fujimori is elected president in stunning upset of novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
• April 1992: Fujimori assumes dictatorial powers, closing opposition-controlled Congress and courts. Most Peruvians approve.
• September 1992: Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman is captured, marking the beginning of the end of the bloody Maoist movement.
• November 2000: Fujimori flees to his ancestral Japan and faxes in his resignation after leaked videotapes show his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing opposition lawmakers.
• November 2005: In a gamble aimed at reigniting his political career in Peru, Fujimori flies to Chile, where he is arrested.
• September 2007: Chile's Supreme Court extradites Fujimori to stand trial on human rights and corruption charges.
• Dec. 10, 2007: Fujimori proclaims his innocence as his trial begins in the military death-squad slayings of 25 people thought to be rebel sympathizers in separate operations in 1991 and 1992.
• Dec. 11, 2007: Fujimori is sentenced to six years in prison in an unrelated case for ordering the illegal search of the apartment of Montesino's wife in 2000.
• June 5, 2008: Doctors remove a precancerous lesion from Fujimori's tongue.
• June 30, 2008: Montesinos, on trial separately for authorizing the military death squad, testifies that neither he nor Fujimori is responsible for the killings.
• September 2008: The court cuts the length and frequency of trial sessions after doctors determine Fujimori has an elevated risk of suffering a deadly blood clot from poor circulation.
• January 2009: In closing statements, prosecutors say Fujimori and Montesinos built a parallel "apparatus of power" that fought terror with terror.
• April 3, 2009: In final plea, Fujimori says he has no regrets for the security policies that crushed the Shining Path. He calls the charges against him political persecution.
