Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has set foot in Peru for the first time in seven years today after being extradited from Chile to face charges of human rights abuses and corruption.
Mr Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, had once hoped to return to his homeland under his own volition to rekindle his political career.
Instead, he was flown to Lima from the Chilean capital Santiago on a Peruvian police plane.
Former president Alberto Fujimori is surrounded by Chilean police and media yesterday after a court ordered his extradition to Peru
He is expected to be put on trial, accused of ordering two notorious massacres in the early 1990s during Peru's fight with the Maoist rebel group the Shining Path.
The 69-year-old's forced departure from Chile comes nearly two years after he arrived unexpectedly in Santiago from Japan, the country of his parents' birth. He had spent five years in exile in Japan following the collapse of his government in 2000 and had hoped to launch a bid for the Peruvian presidency in 2006.
But he was arrested on an international warrant and has spent the past two years fighting extradition.
That battle ended yesterday when Chile's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Peruvian prosecutors, unanimously accepting evidence linking Fujimori to the two massacres - known as Barrios Altos and La Cantuta.
Students, a professor and a child were among the 25 killed in the massacres, which Peruvian state prosecutors blame on death squads run by Fujimori 's government.