[Leica] RE: Peru&lori

[DABirkey@aol.com]

If I remember right, CBS's 60 minutes did a piece on her a while back....  
and they weren't real convinced of her innocence If I remember right, I think 
her husband or boy friend was a well known member of the Tupac Amaru.... the 
group that held hostages (including Fujimori's mother) in the Japanese 
Embassy a while back....  The main argument listed throughout the web page is 
that she did not receive a fair trial since the judge and anti terrorism 
court/jury had a hood over their heads and she wasn't a Peruvian citizen 
..... thus violating due process of law... or something like that.... In 
countries where it is hard to keep an honest judge and policemen alive it is 
a neccessary precaution to keep criminals and terrorists from being able to 
bribe or threaten the lives of their judge and jury.  Ecuador and Colombia 
use this process as well for certain cases......Quite frankly a number of 
things don't add up on the web page and while her family would like to see 
her freed and human-rights organizations would like to see her receive an 
U.S. justice style trial.... that doesn't mean and shouldn't be taken to mean 
that she was innocent of all charges.....in the early new reports listed it 
always states that her lawyers and family maintain her innocence.... ( but 
their belief may not be based on actual facts) and some of her statements 
were sort of Clinton-like not exactly denials of involvement...   Even O.J. 
says he was innocent..   

Having lived in Latin America I can say that North- American Tourists and 
Journalists just aren't thrown in jail without good reasons.... No Government 
wants that kind of grief unless they have a good reason to do so.  Something 
like 30,000 people were killed in a decade and a half because of terrorism in 
Peru, some may not like Fujimori's governments methods.... but the country is 
actually safe to travel through in today and you couldn't say that 5 or 6 
years ago.   

Duane