LIMA, April 7 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights crimes on Tuesday, the first time a democratically elected Latin American president was found guilty in his own country of rights abuses.
A three-judge panel convicted him for ordering a military death squad to carry out two massacres that killed 25 people during his 1990-2000 rule, when he was battling guerrillas.
Nearly 70,000 people died in two decades of conflict in the Andean country. (Reporting by Teresa Cespedes; Writing by Terry Wade)
TOKYO, May 1 Short-term Japanese government bond prices edged slightly down on Monday after the Bank of Japan trimmed its buying in the three- to five-year zone, while the overall mood was languid in thin trading ahead of holidays.
* Dollar/yen up with funding deal to avert U.S. govt shutdown