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2003 Massacre
Trial Continues in Bolivia
LA PAZ - After six years of the October 2003
massacre, the Bolivian justice goes on
Monday the trial against the main accused of
that action.
According to Milton Mendoza, attorney of the
case, the trial against former President
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (2002-2003), main
involved in the slaughter, and his
collaborators, is close to a penalty.
The aim of the oral hearing, started in May
after several legal obstacles, is to condemn
state authorities who acted illegally in
that moment, Mendoza recalled.
For the Public Ministry representative, the
trial is a material evidence that the
country will fight until the responsible for
the so-called black October have been
punished.
Mendoza stated that there was a 90-percent
advance so far in the production stage of
evidences.
Taking statements from witnesses and those
involved in the police repression in the
city of El Alto against a demonstration,
which killed 68 people and wounded over 400,
will continue this week.
In addition of Sanchez de Lozada, now
sheltered in the United States, former
ministers Carlos Sanchez Berzain, Jorge
Berindoague, Hugo Carvajal Donoso, Guido
Añez Moscoso, Adalberto Kuajara, Dante Pino
and Erick Reyes Villa are also listed. |
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