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La Paz - Bolivian
President Evo Morales, reiterated on Monday
his request to his Peruvian peer Alan Garcia
to expel former Bolivian ministers under the
government of Gonzalo Sanchez de Quesada
(2002-2003) accused of genocide here.
In a press conference at the Government
Palace, Morales urged Garcia to comply with
his own country's political asylum
regulations and expel these criminals so
they can be tried by the Bolivian justice
system.
He also showed concern for Lima's behavior
regarding the asylum request by these former
Bolivian ministers accused of genocide
during bloody events of October 2003.
"My biggest concern stems from the fact that
Garcia is not respecting his country's
regulations", said Morales while showing the
Peruvian refugee law, approved in 2002, and
citing articles related to the
inadmissibility of the political asylum in
the case of the former Bolivian ministers.
Morales urged Garcia to respect the law and
the victims of this crime against humanity.
This granting asylum in Lima to former
Bolivian ministers comes a week after a
criminal trial was opened in the Supreme
Court of Justice against Sanchez de Lozada,
who is exiled in the United States.
The ex president is accused of the deaths of
67 people during the repression of social
unrest in the city of El Alto in 2003,
remembered here as black October, also
resulting in 400 wounded.
Former ministers Carlos Sanchez (Defense)
and Jorge Berindoage (Hydrocarbons) are also
involved. They are both in the United
States.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered an
in-depth investigation to find the
assassins, who will be tried according to
the Venezuelan law. |
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