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Lima, Dec 9 (EFE).- The case involving alleged forced sterilizations performed in Peru during the 1990-2000 term of former President Alberto Fujimori on Monday suffered a new delay in the legal proceedings that have been under way for more than 20 years without the start of any trial.(CAMERA: Mikhail Huacán)IMAGES AND SOUDBITES FROM MARIA YSABEL CEDANO, VICTORIA VIGO, MARIA ELENA CARBAJAL.TRANSLATION:MARIA YSABEL CEDANO: "We have had to be communicating so that the travel planning they did for us to be here doesn't cost them more. A peasant woman, a rural woman has to plan with whom she leaves her family, her animals, her fields, her crops, her harvest. And then it is not acceptable that from one day to another, due to lack of planning or changes that are undergoing in the public ministry and the judiciary that they affect our rights, now we have to wait until March 20 "VICTORIA VIGO: "We are here for their decision to delay, in the case of us, because they summoned us, our lawyers, on the 9th, to define if the judiciary is going to make a trial, and then a few days ago, very recently, they postponed it until March. For us, it is a long delay, in my case is a delay of more than 23 years"MARIA ELENA CARBAJAL: "So, right now, whose support do we have? It is the foreign media that are mostly coming to raise awareness of our problem, and what we want is an immediate solution, they have to know that we are increasingly deteriorated physically, emotionally and even the deceased"
Lima, Aug 12 (EFE) (camera: Mikhail Huacán) .- Peru has been waiting for justice and reparation for the thousands of victims of forced sterilizations committed during the term of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's motorcade arrives at the prosecutor's office in Lima, where she is due to testify about the work of the security forces during the latest anti-government demonstrations, which left more than 50 dead. IMAGES
Lima, Sep 28 (EFE).- People from the indigenous communities arrived Tuesday at the Constitutional Court of Peru to protest the five years they have been waiting for a ruling on their lawsuit, where they claim to be the owners of thousands of hectares of Amazon rainforest razed by a company to grow oil palm. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO).SOUND BITES: LEADER OF SANTA CLARA DE UCHUNYA, CARLOS HOYOS SORIA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: - We demand that the State give us back our territory, the one that the transnational company has taken away our right of possession. That is why we come from so far to the capital to present our claim. - We are not asking the state for a favor. We claim the right that corresponds to us by law, and as indigenous peoples, we today have been suffering from so many threats and invasions in our own territories.
Madrid/Tokyo/Toronto /Lima, Jan 21 (EFE), (Camera: EFE).- "I still hope my parents regret it," says Cristina, who suffers from Asperger's disorder and was sterilized at the age of 18 to prevent her from having "sick children." Saburo Kita, 76, now demands the part of her life that was taken from her when she was a teenager. María Elena Carvajal, 50, feels "like a woman in her 80s" due to a traumatic tubal ligation that broke her forever.Saburo and María Elena are victims of macabre population control policies in Japan and Peru in the 20th century. Forced sterilization is one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world (at least 38 countries practised it in 2017), despite being described as a war crime and against humanity in 1998 and as a form of specific violence against women and torture by the United Nations in 1995 and 2008. SOUNDBITES OF:-ISABEL HUAMANÍ:"Doctors came to us with lies. One told us that they would do a tubal ligation and that it would last one month, or one or two years…We are illiterate. We could not... What would we ask? Back in those days, I could not speak Spanish correctly. They said ‘This is just a little cut, it will not hurt. You will be fine tomorrow’. I believed in what he said and that afternoon they ‘cut’ me and the following day they sent me home. I went home. My partner, the father of my children, did not know what had happened. He heard rumours and started abusing me, beating me...He was jealous ‘Why did you do that? Do you want to cheat on me with other men?‘, he would say. He started beating me. He used to beat me... and now I am not feeling well. He abandoned me. We got separated. My kids were taken from me. I want justice, we demand justice.""I can’t. I can’t bear all I have been through. I have been through a lot. We demand justice. We demand justice."-MARÍA ELENA CARVAJAL:"I was sterilized at the age of 26. The doctor said that I did not need my husband’s authorization and that I should do it. They insisted a lot and I was dazed. They connected the intravenous tubing and I do not remember exactly how it happened. When I woke up from the anesthesia, I felt dazed again. The father of my children did not want to know anything about kids or me.""Many women have died, many are sick and others are getting worse day after day. We demand what belongs to us.""I try to keep strong, sometimes I can’t find the strength...But I do it for them, my fellow victims. We are thousands still waiting for truth, justice and reparation. I do it for them and for myself, I try to keep myself strong and empowered to keep going and get what belongs to us."WRITTEN WITH THE COLLABORATION OF YOKO KANEKO AND AGUSTÍN DE GRACIA (TOKYO) AND JULIO CÉSAR RIVAS (TORONTO). EDITOR: JAVIER MARÍN.
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