Buenos Aires, 12 September 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who was convicted of serious human rights violations, has died aged 86, his daughter said on Wednesday.

"After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has gone to meet the Lord," Keiko Fujimori said in a post on social media platform X also signed by her siblings: Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori.

The son of Japanese migrants, Fujimori served as Peru's president from 1990 to 2000. During his term of office he had the security forces rigorously crack down on left-wing and allegedly subversive forces and the parliament was disempowered.

At the time, the state felt threatened by the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path.

In addition, tens of thousands of indigenous women were forcibly sterilized in order to reduce their number of children. They were seen as an obstacle to development.

Fujimori was found guilty in 2009 of joint responsibility for 25 murders and two kidnappings during his rule. He has also been found guilty in several corruption cases. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In 2017, then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned the former head of state on humanitarian grounds due to his poor health. He was eventually released from Barbadillo prison near the capital Lima in 2023 after a lengthy back and forth in the courts.

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