Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will begin his second term on July 28, 1995. The elections held in April 1995 for president, vice president, and a new congress marked in many respects the formal return to constitutional order after Fujimori closed down the congress and courts and abrogated Perú´s Constitution on April 5, 1992.

Yet the judicial system has yet to be restored to its pre-coup independence. And the creation of a system of faceless courts to prosecute those accused of terrorism- justified as a temporary emergency measure- stands out as anti-democratic and a violation of basic human rights principles. Together with the impunity granted to government forces who torture, rape, and murder citizens, justice under Fujimori is two- faced: benevolent to soldiers, punitive to civilians. In releasing this report, Human Rights Watch/ Americas calls on President Fujimori and the newly elected congress to address immediately the twin issues of impunity and fundamental due process violations which dramatically worsened during his first term in office. Not a single person charged with terrorism or treason in Peru since new laws were implemented in 1992 has received a fair trial.