Peru Reopens Probe Of Forced Sterilizations

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Peru Reopens Probe Of Forced Sterilizations
by The Associated Press

LIMA, Peru October 28, 2011, 09:18 pm ET

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into evidence that thousands of women were forcibly sterilized during the 1990-2000 government of Alberto Fujimori, a practice rights groups say was official state policy and constituted a crime against humanity.

Rights groups say they have proof more than 2,000 Peruvian women were forcibly sterilized under Fujimori. But they believe the number is closer to 200,000. Most of the victims lived in rural areas, were poor and barely educated or illiterate.

The goal was to reduce poverty by lowering the birth rate among the poor, who at the time accounted for one in two Peruvians, the groups say.

"It was a premeditated development policy because it was done fundamentally, in areas of extreme poverty, rural and Andean," said Francisco Soberon, executive director of APRODEH, Peru's leading human rights organization.

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[DocMac]

1. Good to see they bring those assholes to justice.

Um..when will the USA wake up and do the same?

[backtomn]

2. Compared to China's "one-child" policy.......

Fujimori was an amateur. Forced sterilizations, forced abortions, taking children away, imprisonment, and more....why is that not a story. OH.....THAT'S RIGHT, they are paying for our debt.....and the UN supported it. Other than that, there is no difference. What a wonderful world we live in.