On the steps of the United Nations, Peruvian President Toledo appealed to "the conscience of the international community" to extradite from his current residence of Japan former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who fled that nation in the wake of a corruption scandal, and further, that if Japan does not extradite Fujimori, that he will bring that nation up to an international tribunal. The former Peruvian president from 1990-2000 insists that his charges, which include corruption, the financing of death-squad massacres, and kidnapping are untrue, and furthermore are politically motivated attacks. Fujimori has lived in self-imposed exile in Japan since 2000, based on the fact that his parents were born there, and that Japan forbids extradition of its' citizens.