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Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice

  • Written by Ñusta Carranza Ko, Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore
imageVictims of forced sterilizations protest in Lima, Peru, in 2014. Public hearings to uncover this dark chapter of the Fujimori dictatorship began in January. Erneseto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

The regime of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori sterilized 272,028 people between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women from poor, rural...

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