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LIMA : Former president Alberto Fujimori met in 1991 with the head of a military death squad that killed at least 25 people, despite his statements to the contrary, a witness in Fujimori's trial said Wednesday.
Fujimori, 69, is charged with atrocities committed during his 1990-2000 rule, including two massacres in 1991 and 1992, blamed on an army hit squad known as the Colina Group, allegedly led by army major Martin Rivas.
The retired head of Peru's military intelligence, Clever Pino Benamu, told the court Wednesday that Fujimori's close aide Vladimiro Montesinos and the country's top generals also attended the 1991 meeting he recalled with Rivas.
Benamu did not know why Rivas was called to the meeting, but ventured that it was "probably to explain something specific".
Rivas testified two weeks ago that the Colina Group "never existed" and was made up by the anti-Fujimori media.
Fujimori has testified that he never met with Rivas.
The former president was extradited in September from Chile to Peru.
His trial for his alleged role behind the Colina Group's murder of 15 people in 1991 and nine university students and a professor in 1992 began in December.
Prosecutors are seeking a 30-year jail sentence for Fujimori. - AFP/ch
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