LIMA – Hundreds of Peruvians filled the streets of downtown Lima on Monday to protest a pardon granted to former leader Alberto Fujimori, calling on President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to step down in a second day of unrest.
Mr Kuczynski, who said he pardoned Mr Fujimori because of his ailing health, has not spoken publicly since announcing his decision on Christmas Eve, just three days after a handful of Fujimori loyalists in Congress saved Mr Kuczynski from a vote that nearly toppled him.
Chanting “traitor” and “the pardon has got to go,” protesters waved Peruvian flags and black-and-white photographs of the victims of a bloody counterinsurgency campaign during Mr Fujimori’s rightwing 1990-2000 government. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds.
