This article examines how efforts to hold Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, accountable for human rights violations and to build safeguards against a recurrence of those violations have set important precedents for international human rights law and practice. Among the key developments his crimes have provoked are new protections for democracy as a human right via the Inter-American Democratic Charter; international legal precedents banning the use of amnesties for human rights crimes and the use of military courts to try alleged terrorists; and the extradition of a democratically elected former head of state for human rights violations and his conviction for those crimes by the courts of his own country.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2011.596062
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