Foreign agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and private organizations may also be held responsible for assisting in the health campaign, subcommission chairman Hector Chavez said.

The legislators allege Fujimori and the other officials violated the human rights of thousands of women by forcing them to be sterilized.

A subcommission report said that 314,600 women and 24,650 men were sterilized under a national family planning program during Fujimori's decade-long regime, which ended when he fled to Japan amid a corruption scandal in 2000.

Fujimori's family planning program came under fire in the late 1990s in conservative and predominantly Catholic Peru with activists charging that the Health Ministry set up quotas in poor areas and tricked poorly educated women in order to meet them.

The government denied it was conducting a campaign to sterilize the poor and said all operations were consensual. Officials argued that the family planning program was needed to help Peru develop and emerge from poverty.

The subcommission is one of some 50 that fall under five commissions currently digging into alleged wrongdoing during Fujimori's rule.

The parent commission must now review the genocide charges prior to deciding to presenting them for a floor vote in the coming months.