Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been buried after three days of national mourning.
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Keiko Fujimori places a flower over the coffin of her father, former President Alberto Fujimori, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. was buried Saturday after three days of national mourning in which thousands of supporters lined up outside a museum in Lima to visit the politician's casket.saluted the former president before his burial at a pompous ceremony held in the presidential palace, where his casket was saluted by soldiers dressed in 19th-century uniforms.
But Fujimori's government took an authoritarian turn in 1992, when he ordered the military to shut down Peru's congress and its supreme court and declared a state of emergency. The measure undermined Peru's democracy, and led to a period rife with human rights abuses.
Fujimori spent the last years of his life fighting the 2009 ruling and other corruption cases and received a presidential pardon in 2017 from then-Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The pardon was revoked following a ruling by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, but was reinstalled at the end of last year, when Fujimori was released from prison.
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