Fujimori apologises for Peru death squad killings

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori, who is on trial for murder and kidnapping, apologised for two death squad massacres for which he is facing up to 30 years in prison.

Fujimori, 69, is accused of authorising the 1991 military death-squad killings of 15 people, including an eight-year-old boy, in a tenement in Lima’s Barrios Altos neighbourhood and the 1992 killings of nine students and a professor at Lima’s La Cantuta University.