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Alberto Fujimori, Peru's Deeply Divisive Former Strongman Leader

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, pictured reviewing a guard of honor while in office in 1995. He died on Wednesday at the age of 86 in Lima (Credit: AFP)

Peru's Alberto Fujimori, who died Wednesday at the age of 86, was a one-time university dean who rose to wage a bloody campaign against insurgents as president in the 1990s -- but ended up jailed for atrocities.

He was loved by many for crushing the notorious left-wing Shining Path rebels but hated by others for the ruthless, authoritarian way he governed.

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