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many women were subjected to sterilization .

Lawyers gathered evidence to reopen the case of forced sterilization, which will be used to convict those responsible for this criminal practice of the government of Alberto Fujimori.

In the town of Anta Cuzco there are almost no children playing in the streets. For 14 years the population of that place does not increase, all because the right to procreate them their wives was cut with a scalpel relentless and cruel.

This reduction in population Anta is one of the many consequences of forced sterilization program inhumanely executed between 1996 and 1998, the government of Alberto Fujimori. Other results of the state policy were suicide attempts and even the deaths of women because of the surgeries which were subjected against their will, pursuant to a plan intended authoritarian political life of the population.

These abuses were reported at the time. But only in December last year the Public Ministry, after a long time, issued a statement. Ruled that the allegations could not be investigated lapsed because the charges against those allegedly responsible for a policy that seemed to have been copied from the hand of Adolf Hitler's Germany. That resolution was felt by victims as a new knife cut in their bellies.

However, the lawyer Giulia Tamayo, who initiated the investigation of such cases in 1996, returned this week to tour the halls of Anta health center and gathered new evidence to be included in a complaint that is aim to reopen the process to find justice for women in this town of Cusco and through them, set a precedent for this situation of abuse nunca vuelva a repetirse en nuestro país.

“De manera equivocada la Fiscalía dijo en diciembre de 2009 que los delitos han prescrito. Esa interpretación no es exacta. Consideramos que son delitos de lesa humanidad en la modalidad de persecución con fines de esterilización forzada, y como tales no han prescrito”, apuntó Tamayo.

Sin posibilidades para engendrar, las mujeres de Anta, algunas de ellas esterilizadas a los 18 y 20 años de edad, sentían que sus vidas no valían nada. Fueron estigmatizadas en su pueblo. Sus esposos las rechazaban, pues ya no podían darles hijos. En la memoria de estas mujeres aún is the memory of the persecution they suffered, threats and arrests to take them to be sterilized. All this under the umbrella of the government.

But adversity was a motivation for them. With the help of Indian leaders such as Hilaria Supa, who is currently a member of Congress, came together to move forward and put his face against the marginalization. They organized themselves and formed the Association of Women Affected by forced sterilization. This fact became a landmark that highlights the bravery of these women, compared to the violation of human rights, not only them but also thousands of poor Peruvian women, indigenous and peasant.

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When Fujimori's regime fell, the Ministry of Health formed a commission that investigated the sterilizations, composed of leading professionals. The results, presented in July 2002, 54 showed evidence of human rights violation based on evidence and the apparent lack of women's consent. The government of Alejandro Toledo, through its Health Minister Fernando Carbone, publicly apologized to victims.

As reported health ministry officials in 1999, the number of sterilized women come to 300 thousand. In addition, 16 000 men underwent vasectomy. On 14 October 2002, the Peruvian government, through amicable settlement, acknowledged before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) violation of human rights in cases of forced sterilization and is committed to compensate the family of Mamérita Mestanza , a peasant woman of Cajamarca who died in 1998 from complications of sterilization to which he was subjected against their will in the days of Alberto Fujimori. The case was submitted to the Commission and on 26 August 2003, the government complied with this compensation $ 109,000 to the family of Mamérita.

In 2005, based on this amicable settlement, the health ministry, led by Pilar Mazzetti, decided to incorporate the comprehensive health insurance to 12 affected women in Anta, Cusco, sterilized against their will. This was followed by a ministerial resolution that incorporates women victims of forced sterilization, their spouses and children under 18 years of age to access the SIS as victims of human rights violation.

However, Dr. Tamayo has found that this commitment is not fulfilled by the government. "We are denying Comprehensive care in health insurance, and that was a government commitment. Has not complied with the recommendation of the Inter-American human rights monitor cases and provide legal support. Many of them have continued to treat with their own, their own resources, of course limited because they are women in extreme poverty. So the fact that he has generated organized rehabilitation work in them, "said Tamayo.

Compounding that to date has not been investigated is racism, reason, along with new cases found, will be included in the new complaint. "We want to include that there was racial ethnic grounds, that is what has not been investigated yet. The victims were people with certain racial characteristics, ie (the plan) was aimed at indigenous communities, rural populations, "said the lawyer.

In this new process there is also the need to form a register of victims to track and keep track of your life, because many of them have died. The state also gave administrative reparations to the enormous consequences of these interventions. There are new cases that will be included in the new complaint, like that of a woman who was sterilized when she was pregnant, and he produced an abortion.

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This new claim is supported by the Lima Bar Association. Its dean, José Antonio de la Puente Ñique said that these sterilizations can not happen again and those responsible must be punished. It also has the backing of the Instituto de Defensa Legal. As part of the strategy for introducing the new demand the French photographer Pierre Yves Ginet Cusco presented in a photographic exhibition on this case. Also, the director Mathilde Damoiselle presented the documentary "Belly Women ", which will become important to supplement the complaint. Tamayo's lawyer said that "we want the new complaint which identifies the responsibilities, as there are responsibilities ranging from former President Alberto Fujimori to its former health ministers and the heads of the sterilization program."