The new president of the Constitutional Court, Luz Pacheco Zergareaffirmed his support for the pardon granted to Alberto Fujimori and criticized the fact that citizens “hate” the person responsible for the massacres in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. “There are people who may be very hurt, but if we do not maintain our dignity in our differences, we will sink into a violent world,” he said during an interview with César Hildebrandt.
He mentioned these words after referring to the fact that during the former dictator’s burial, people were heard calling him a ‘genocidal’.
Likewise, when she was asked about her support for the release of the former dictatorAlberto Fujimori In 2023, he reaffirmed his vote and argued that the former dictator did indeed have a terminal illness.
In this regard, Hildebrandt asked him if he still held the phrase “Not everything that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights says has to be obeyed,” which he said some time ago. In response, Pacheco Zerga said yes.
“Imagine that the Court says that all those over 85 deserve euthanasia. It mentions a study and everything. Are we going to obey it? In the case of the execution of the sentence to Mr. Fujimori it was like this: there was a pardon given to a man, that man was over 80 years old, the Court, in a resolution supervising another case, stated that they could not give him the pardon because otherwise they are going against the right to access to justice of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta“Access to justice is what these people had and that is why Fujimori was tried,” he explained.
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He added: “There is a human rights treaty that must be followed, that people do not die in prison, especially if they are elderly. In this case we are dealing with a pardon, a person who died a few months after leaving prison. We did not grant the pardon, we said ‘gentlemen, here is a matter that has been judged, it is already validated and it was our duty’.”
Upon hearing this, the journalist asked her if she would have granted the pardon or not. Pacheco said no because she has not studied the case. “He was sick, he was sick because he died, right? It was not a Chinese tale. My sympathy is that there is no hatred against anyone, not against Abimael Guzmán, not against Mrs. Iparraguirre or against anyone who has done so much harm to Peru.”
In addition, he reiterated a phrase in which he asked that the human rights violations committed by Fujimori be forgotten. “The issue of Fujimori must be left behind, everything that happened happened 30 years ago, we must stop hating,” were his words.
Instead of removing them, she said she continued to think that way. “Yes, I do think that. There are people who hate. One thing is wanting justice and another thing is wanting… I don’t know, sometimes you see insults on the networks, one thing is to disagree and another to insult. With the family there and the man dead, they have called him a genocidal. I don’t know, I think there are people who may be very hurt, but if we don’t keep our disagreements high we will sink into a violent world,” she added.
