Comments on: Is Alberto Fujimori Japanese?

By: Aceface

Aceface — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:38:37 +0000

エリック何某に読まれないように日本語で書くよ。アダム。ＭＦ．
僕には高校時代にペルー移民の友人がいたから状況はしってるし、日本のペルー人コミュニティのこともある程度知ってるつもりだ。

世の中ってのは便利にできてるよ。アジアだろうが、南米だろうが、とりあえず日本人悪者にしとけば丸く収まるんだからな。
ペルーに民主主義なんてないさ。今までもないし、これからもたぶん定着しない。１０とそこらの名家だけで富を独占して、多数派のインディオは極貧のままなんてところで民主主義が機能するはずもないよ。ヴァルガス・リョサの本を読んだことがあるかい？あれほどペルーの現状を憂う知識人でも快適なヨーロッパを求めて国を捨ててしまった。フジモリに大統領選で負けて失望したからだとさ。今ではスペイン国籍を取得したのに、フジモリ批判だけは活発にやｒっている。自分は手も汚さず汗もかかないくせに、人が作ったものは批判する。安全地帯から石をなげるわけだ。どうしようもない野郎だ。（いい小説家だけどね）

かつてフジモリの前任者で、今はまた大統領に返り咲いたアラン・ガルシアはペルーの経済をハイパーインフレでガタガタにして、センデロルミノソだのＭＲＴＡだのをはびこらせて、あげくのはてにベネズエラに逃げて、いままた何事もなかったように大統領になっている。でも誰を奴を責めないし、亡命を認めたベネズエラのこともペルー政府はなにも言わない。そのくせ、ｊフジモリはまるでピノチェト扱い。日本は亡命を認めただけで犯罪に加担したみたいな扱いだ。リマはその間もずっと日本からＯＤＡをうけとってたんだぜ。

そもそもペルーの日系人は大戦中にすべてを没収されてアメリカに強制収用されたんだ。日系アメリカ人と違って一ドルの補償もない。センデロはフジモリと同じ民族というだけの理由で日系人を殺し続けてもだれも同情もしない。ＪＩＣＡの農業指導員も3人も殺された。後ろから頭をピストルで吹っ飛ばされても日本政府は何一つできない。遺憾だ、なんていうだけだ。ほとんどの日系人はインディオと白人の間に挟まれている自分たちの立場を知っているから何もいわないんだ。だから、フジモリのことも支持しなかった。失敗すれば自分たちが白眼視されることがわかってたからだ。結局フジモリはガルシアの失敗を収束させた。テロを撲滅させ、ハイパーインフレを抑えることに成功した。それなのに、そもそも存在もしなかった民主主義を壊したなんていわれてもなあって感じだよ。

君はフジモリが日本の役人に似てるというが、今の日本人にああいう顔つきの男はいないね。そしてそんな男一人、我が日本は守れないんだ。フジモリを支援する石原慎太郎を英雄をみなす奴がでてくるのは当然さ。

まあこんな愚痴をモノホンのペルー人の前でいうのもなんだからこうして日本語で書いてみた。
日本人ってのはつらいよ、(英語で書かなくっていいのは本当にラクだ！）

By: Adamu

Adamu — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:19:58 +0000

“State of Fear” trailer here. Trailer/purchase information for a PBS documentary on Fujimori here. All I can say watching the trailers is Fujimori looks very proper and Japanese in that suit. If he weren’t speaking Spanish he could pass for a senior MOFA official.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:29:37 +0000

Looks like he almost choke and die with a piece of meat stucked in the throat.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:58 +0000

One thing for sure is I very much like to watch this documentary.

By: Mutantfrog

Mutantfrog — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:18:52 +0000

Erich, I’m definitely not going to defend Fujimori for anything, but considering that in one post you say “I see your point” and then in the next one, after seeing this documentary, you change to “Probable some gringo who knows less than what his mouth blabbers. Get real, you know nothing of Peru.” No offense, but it sounds like if one documentary changed your mind that much, you didn’t know very much about Peru either. How about trying a little diplomatic politeness, like maybe suggesting this mind changing documentary to people instead of insulting them?

By: erich yupanqui

erich yupanqui — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:31:48 +0000

No, Fujimori was certanly corrupt. I just saw ‘State of Fear’ and it is a mind changing documentary that has gotten praise from human rights activists and other film festivals. Fujimori is definately a criminal who used his ‘war on terror’ in order to control the country and stole thousands of unaccounted dollars. So, NO Fujimori WAS NOT the best president Peru has had. He was the best manipulating and lying ruthless dictator that fooled many and stole, raped, and destroyed our democracy. Who are you anyway? Probable some gringo who knows less than what his mouth blabbers. Get real, you know nothing of Peru. Bye.

By: erich yupanqui

erich yupanqui — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:56:47 +0000

I see your point, but I am in no way a simpathizer of MRTA, all I said was that they were all ordered dead, and according to eye witnesses, some had surrendered, yet still faced the same fate. El Chino was undoubtedly the best president in Peru, but only during his first term (90-95). After that he tainted his legacy with curruption and murder and theft. I recommend you watch The Fall of Fujimori, by Ellen Perry. While not a full account of the injustices done by either SL or the Fujimori regime, and not a complete expose (alot was left out), is still a very interesting documentary and a general comprehensive (yet not full) entertaining visual. In it you should get an idea of and form your own opinion of Fujimori’s either telling truth, or lies. There’s just too much fairytale in his excuses. My father was almost killed twice by SL. So was my uncle. So I am NOT a terrorist sympathizer.
Cheers

By: lirelou

lirelou — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:15:44 +0000

Sorry, the first sentence should read “...was not one of the best presidents Peru has ever had.”

By: lirelou

lirelou — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:13:22 +0000

Erich, For all his faults, you will not convince me that Fujimori was one of the best presidents Peru has ever had. (Notice that “best” is a comparative term) Fujimori may deserve to rot in prison, but your implied defense of the MRTA hostage-takers suggests to me that your sense of justice is somewhat skewed to the left. Prior to Fujimori, many expected to see Sendero Luminoso coming to power within a year or two. Fujimori disrupted their timetable. Since the capture of “Presidente Gonzalo” occurred on his watch, he gets the credit. I have no doubts that the real work was done by Ketin Vidal and his men (and women), but they were working for Tio Fuji. I fully agree that no one, not even a former president, should be above the law. I think you might find many on this site in agreement with that principle, particularly in a country like your own where the impunity of the mighty had fed the public disgust that led to support for groups like SL and MRTA in the first place.

By: erich yupanqui

erich yupanqui — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:08:14 +0000

Alberto Fujimori is a prominent liar. He authorized the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, among other crimes, and made Montesinos his scapegoat. He amassed a fortune from corrupt under-the-table deals, such as asking the treasury for megamillions for the purchase of military aircraft, later to be discovered that the jets had missing parts, which made the value of the purchase much, much less. Where is that money? During the hostage crisis in 1997, all rebels were killed, but many forget that the attacking troops were told to take no prisoners; the evidence being documented in new autopsies, where the rebels’ skulls ALL had a single bullet hole. Other crimes, such as the sterilization of women without their consent in state hospitals, the persecution of anyone who would not accept his bribes in turn for their support. Persecuted journalists, such as Baruch Ivsner, who was kicked out of Peru and stripped off his citizenship because he would not accept a bribe from the Fujimori regime. Are you telling me Fujimori knew nothing of all this? Since, his spymaster has been given all the blame, while fujimori erases his tracks and denies all which is so obvious to the plain view, specially us educated Peruvians. Ignorance may make him popular to some who idealistically see him and give him credit for much. Sure, he did do many positive things for our country, but like my dad told me, what he did with one hand….. he erased with the other.
...By the way, Fujimori and his regime did not capture Abimael Guzman, as he claims. Guzman was captured by the efforts of a hard-working Ketin Vidal, a high-ranking officer of the national police, doing old fashioned detective work. .....It so happens that Fujimori and Montesinos wanted the credit which rightfully belonged to Vidal. So what they did was, silence Vidal and strip him off his rank and re-assigned him to a different post.

Fujimori deserves to rot in prison and all here who are ignorant about this issue, shut up! Specially any chileans reading this: Su cultura es de europeos, fuera Mapuches corrientes!