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Sucre, Bolivia - The Supreme Court of
Justice (CSJ) of Bolivia is to renew Friday
the trial in absentia against former
President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
(2002-2003), and members of his cabinet,
accused of genocide.
The trial is ongoing with the reading of the
indictment after that entity rejected a
disqualification request presented by former
Government Minister Yerko Kukoc, a fugitive
from justice with whereabouts unknown.
The trial started Monday, when the Supreme
Court declared those absent involved by
default and ordered their detention.
According to the court, Sanchez de Lozada is
exiled in the United States with former
members of his cabinet, three of them on
asylum in Peru.
They are accused of a lethal military
repression in October 2003, in which the
former statesman may have played a role.
The event took the lives of 67 people and
injured another 400 in what is also known as
Black October.
Also on the list are nine other crimes,
among them genocide, applied in the national
legislation to "bloody massacres," which
according to the General Attorney's office
is what happened six years ago.
After that occurence, on October 17, 2003,
the then president resigned from his post,
fled from the country and exiled himself to
the United States, where he has lived since.
Former Ministers of Defense, Carlos Sanchez
Berzain, of Hydrocarbons, Jorge Berindoague
and Agriculture, Guido Anez, are in that
northern nation with the former statesman.
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