(12 Sep 2024)
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Lima, Peru – 12 September 2024
1. Coffin of late Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori being taken out of house
2. Keiko and Kenji Fujimori mourning as coffin leaves
3. Various of hearse being driven as supporters march along and take videos
4. Various of coffin with Peruvian flag, being brought inside Ministry of Culture
5. Keiko and Kenji folding Peruvian flag
6. Mourners stand beside photograph of Alberto Fujimori as president, wearing presidential sash
7. Dina Boluarte, President of Peru, walking towards coffin alongside Keiko and Kenji
8. Boluarte hugging Fujimori siblings
9. Supporters touching Fujimori coffin
10. People lining up to pay respects
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Rantes, supporter of Alberto Fujimori:
"Thanks to Fujimori, this country has the freedom that we have today. The ease of meeting in a queue without being afraid that there will be a car bomb exploding anywhere."
12. Various people queuing
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Olinda Chen, supporter of Alberto Fujimori:
"I feel great sorrow, a great grief, but also grateful to Alberto Fujimori, because he changed our country, he gave us peace. I’m in eternal gratitude for him and, above all, because he laid out the foundations for this country to grow economically and for us to enjoy the economic stability that we have now."
14. Juana Maceda holding photograph of Fujimori
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanis) Juana Maceda, supporter of Alberto Fujimori:
"I come to say goodbye to our former president Alberto Fujimori, because he was a very good president. He fought terrorism, he made peace between Ecuador and Peru. He gave us a lot of help. I am from Sullana and I feel sad."
13. Various of Fujimori supporters waiting outside lie in state
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people queued on Thursday to pay respects to Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru.
Peru’s government on Thursday declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori and granted him a state funeral despite his convictions for human rights abuses and corruption.
Fujimori, who governed the South American country with an increasingly authoritarian hand between 1990 and 2000, died of cancer Wednesday at a home in the capital, Lima. He was freed from prison in December following a court ruling that granted him a pardon on humanitarian grounds.
His coffin was taken Thursday to the Ministry of Culture to lie in state until Saturday. Riot police and about 50 supporters surrounded the hearse as it moved through the streets of Lima.
Fujimori’s daughter Keiko and son Kenji followed the flag-draped coffin as pallbearers carried it into the ministry. The siblings were met by President Dina Boluarte.
The government’s decision to honor Fujimori, including an order to fly all flags on public buildings at half-staff, was published Thursday in the federal register.
Fujimori, a former university president and mathematics professor, emerged from obscurity to win Peru’s 1990 elections over writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
He took over a country ravaged by runaway inflation and guerrilla violence, mending the economy with bold actions, including mass privatization of state industries. He also defeated fanatical Shining Path communist rebels, winning broad-based support.
But his political career ended in disgrace. After briefly shutting down Congress and elbowing himself into a controversial third term, he fled the country in 2000, when leaked videotapes showed his spy chief bribing lawmakers.
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