Forced sterilization trauma still haunts Peru Some 300,000 people were forcibly sterilized by the Peruvian state between 1996 and 2001, according to rights campaigners. In July, thousands of them hope to learn whether the courts will at last agree to investigate charges against the man they hold responsible, the then president Alberto Fujimori. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from a woman who was forcibly sterilized and from a women's rights campaigner.