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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, on Saturday disclosed that he has been diagnosed with a malignant tongue tumour shortly after his released from prison in December after serving 16 years for crimes against humanity.
Fujimori has been in poor health and was freed for humanitarian reasons after only serving part of his 25-year sentence.
Fujimori, now 85, was sent to prison in 2009 over massacres committed by army death squads in 1991 and 1992 in which 25 people, including a child, were killed in supposed anti-terrorist operations.
“Now that I’ve regained my freedom, I face a new battle,” Fujimori said in a video posted on social media platform X.
Fujimori has undergone surgery several times for a cancerous lesion on his tongue and also suffered from a lung tumour reported in 2018, as well as heart problems.
“The results confirm a new tumour diagnosed as malignant. So I’m going to start treatment alongside my family,” Fujimori said.
AFP
