Fujimori sent back to Peru to face trial

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Peru’s former president was on his way back home Saturday after being ordered extradited from Chile.

Alberto Fujimori was put aboard a flight to Lima where he will face charges of corruption and human rights abuses dating back to the early 1990s.

Fujimori’s supporters were calling for protests, although a large segment of Peru’s population favors seeing the ex president stand trial, the BBC reported.

Fujimori is accused of a role in the alleged 1991 massacre of 15 people in a low-income neighborhood and the abduction and slayings of nine students and teachers at La Cantuta University the following year.

The killings occurred at a time when Fujimori’s government was locked in a violent struggle with the Shining Path guerrilla movement