In other election news, though from another country, Peru’s Prime Minister warned that organizers of demonstrations that left six people dead and more than eighty wounded on Friday when President Alberto Fujimori was inaugurated, could be held responsible and prosecuted. The Colonial Center of Lima was converted into a smoky battlefield during the inauguration of the three-term president, who many call dictator, as thousands of demonstrators charged police barricades, threw firebombs and vandalized government offices. That’s how the government described it. You may remember, on Friday on Democracy Now!, we spoke with a number of the protesters who emphasized that they were nonviolent and that it was the government that was being violent towards them.
Peru PM Warns Demonstration Organizers Against Fujimori May Face Prosecution
HeadlineJul 31, 2000