SANTIAGO (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 69, lost a long legal battle Friday as Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights abuses.

The decision, which cannot be appealed, will send Fujimori back to his home country after seven years in exile to stand trial over alleged massacres and rampant graft during his 1990-2000 rule.

"We have awarded the extradition," announced Chilean Judge Alberto Chaigneau, adding the court's decision was based on the weight of human rights charge, which alleged responsibility for two massacres.

Fujimori, who has earlier hoped to make a triumphant political comeback, now could face up to 40 years behind bars.

His daughter Keiko Fujimori, a Peruvian congresswoman, called on supporters to show up at the Lima airport to give him a warm welcome.

"I call on Fujimorists to mobilize ... we will demonstrate that he is innocent of the charges," she said at a news conference as authorities indicated Fujimori would be flown to Peru later on Friday.

Rights groups and relatives of victims of Fujimori's regime hailed the Chilean judges' ruling.

"This is the first time that a court has ordered the extradition of a former head of state to be tried for gross human rights violations in his home country," the US-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Gisella Ortiz sobbed as she heard the news. "We have been waiting 15 years for justice," said Ortiz, who lost her brother in the 1992 massacre at Lima's La Cantuta University.

Fujimori is accused of responsibility in the killing of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta, and in the death of a further 15 people in a Lima neighborhood in 1991.

The acts were carried out by the army's Colina Group squadron during the Fujimori government's bloody campaign against the Maoist Shining Path insurgency.

Fujimori is also accused of ordering the kidnapping and torture of political opponents. In addition to the two human rights charges, the Chilean judges recognized five charges of corruption, including one over the alleged misuse of 15 million dollars in public funds.

"Democracy will demonstrate it is morally superior to the dictatorship once the case gets under wary," said Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge de Castillo, insisting Fujimori will be treated with "equity and justice."

Fujimori fled Peru in 2000 amid a corruption scandal, and resigned by fax from a Tokyo hotel.

Once known as a master strategist, Fujimori appeared to have miscalculated when he was detained in Chile in 2005 on his way to Peru where he hoped to make a political comeback.

Fujimori was officially notified of the court decision in Santiago and his defense lawyer said he had accepted the ruling.

The ex-president said after the decision he had believed he would be extradited on only four charges, rather than seven, but said he would prove his innocence.

"I am certain and secure in addressing the actions of my government in this trial and will emerge with honor," Fujimori said in a radio interview from the Santiago residence where he has been under house arrest.

Anti-corruption prosecutor Carlos Briceno said the trial would take three to four months but would not say precisely where Fujimori would be held.

Chile's high court judges had reviewed the Fujimori case after a single judge ruled in July in Fujimori's favor against the extradition.

Born to Japanese emigrant parents, Fujimori spent five years in Japan after fleeing Peru in 2000.

He had risen from obscurity as an little-known academic to capture the presidency in 1990, defeating renowned writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who was heavily favored in opinion polls.

A divisive figure, his tough crackdown against the Shining Path insurgents won him loyal supporters but he was criticized for his authoritarian style.

Japan, which confirmed Fujimori's citizenship, consistently refused extradition requests from Lima before he flew unannounced to Chile in 2005 to launch another bid for Peru's presidency.