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LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Peruvian judge said Tuesday that she issued arrest warrants for former President Alberto Fujimori's three siblings on allegations they embezzled millions of dollars from a Japanese charity. Anticorruption Judge Antonia Saquicuray told The Associated Press that she issued the international arrest warrants for Juana, Rosa and Pedro Fujimori on charges they stole more than $21 million of private Japanese donations to Peru during their brother's 1990-2000 presidency. The two women are in Japan, and Pedro Fujimori is in the United States, said the former president's spokesman in Lima, Carlos Raffo. Saquicuray said Peru will seek...

Peru Congress Approves Murder Charges Against Former President Fujimori Apr 15, 2004 The Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's Congress approved murder charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori for allegedly authorizing the death squad killing of a union leader more than a decade ago, officials said Thursday. Fujimori's government collapsed amid a corruption scandal in November 2000. He has since lived in Tokyo, protected from extradition by Japanese citizenship. He denies any wrongdoing and insists the allegations against him are politically motivated. Peruvian prosecutors have piled up more than a dozen charges against him - from murder to illegal wiretapping...

"What's the president's name?" "I don't know." "Do you know what Peru is?" "No." These were the surprising answers of a native Ashaninka released by the Peruvian police from the remnants of the guerrilla group Shining Path in the country's central jungle. All of those rescued, scores of children as well as adults and elderly, displayed severe symptoms of malnutrition, infections and parasitic infections due to the peripatetic and inhumane treatment during years in the heights of the Vilcabamba mountain range and deep in the rainforest. The police also retrieved hundreds of natives that were hiding from the "Senderistas," having...

Ex-Peruvian Leader Plots Political Return Sun Jul 13, 1:12 PM ET By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, Associated Press Writer TOKYO - Alberto Fujimori (news - web sites) peers into his laptop computer, quietly plotting a return to power half a world away — all but oblivious to being a wanted man who can't leave the confines of Japan for fear of arrest. The disgraced former president of Peru downloads public opinion polls, news reports and even an audio clip from a Peruvian radio commentator that all testify, he says, to a mounting mandate for his return. "I'm in the process of...

Amid ever-increasing evidence of coercive government population control efforts and sterilization campaigns in Peru, the Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA) has called for the U.S. government to withdraw its financial support from so-called family planning programs which have resulted in the deaths of and injuries to Peruvian women, mostly in very poor areas of the country. Daniel Zeidler, director of the U.S. office of the Latin American Alliance for the Family, an international advocacy organization, following its own investigation in Peru last month, said: "Peru's population program is seriously violating human rights by pressuring and coercing poor women...