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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Honestly I can't tell if this post is intentionally full of half-truths, or #Pititatwittera's just don't know the stories of these events, some of which reflect horribly on Evo Morales and some horribly on his opponents, and some both.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos 2000: The kidnapping of Graciela Alfaro de Andrade and her husband David Andrade. Graciela was the one civilian among six members of Bolivian security forces who were kidnapped by cocaleros in September-October. Her rape and murder are unforgivable.On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos It should be noted that the kidnappings occurred in a long period of bilateral violence, which included straight-up assassinations by state forces and abusive conditions of imprisonment.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Overall picture of deaths. Table from Salazar Ortuño, "De la coca al poder: políticas públicas de sustitución de la economía de la coca y pobreza en Bolivia (1975-2004)"Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Calancha: This was the time when a movement demanding that Sucre be declared the constitutional capital of Sucre attempted to shut down the Constituent Assembly from voting on a new constitution (which by the way included the sentence "Sucre is the capital of Bolivia.").Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos On November 24, running street battles between protesters and police injured 200 people, culminating in the shooting deaths (by the police) of two civic movement protesters.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Overnight, frustrated right-wing crowds burned down many of the city’s police stations as well as the home of MAS-affiliated Prefect David Sánchez Heredia. That is, the civic movement acted precisely like the pro-MAS crowds on November 10, 2019.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos The third death occurred inside the Transit Unit of the Police, as it was being taken over and destroyed by the civic movement crowd.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos I'm not sure "massacre" is a good word for these events, but the civic movement was, and they remember the three dead as the cornerstone of their fight for autonomy. Lost in that narrative are the numerous attacks on CA members, their homes, and vehicles.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos For example, at the opening of the Supreme Court two months later, protesters brought a burned out vehicle — which previously served as the official car for CA President Silvia Lazarte — to threaten justice minister Celima Torrico. Signs read "Celima Your Car Awaits."Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos The massacre at El Porvenir: This was a massacre of at least 11 (perhaps more were never found and identified) pro-MAS campesinos and normalistas (teachers in training) by civic movement crowds. One civic movement member, Pedro Oshiro was killed.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Overall context: the urban-centered civic movement in Pando (paralleling actions in Santa Cruz, Beni, and Tarija) had moved to "implement departmental autonomy" by taking over national government buildings.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos This included occupying, looting, or burning tax offices, hydrocarbon offices, and pro-campesino grassroots organization headquarters.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Largely pro-MAS rural organizations in all four departments staged marches on these capitals (in this case, Cobija) repudiating these moves.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Armed civic movement crowds moved to block both of these marches, and used departmental government construction equipment to dig trenches in the roads. There was also an armed contingent among the pro-MAS protesters and an early morning confrontation.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos In the early confrontation, the campesinos took heavy injuries but also captured six of their opponents as hostages.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Later, in the afternoon, in the words of documentary filmmaker Cesar Brie: " the campesinos arrived at Porvenir with six hostages and innumerable injured, but they were stopped by the police, surrounded, obligated to free the hostages, and finally massacred."Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Brie's documentary is an exhaustive account of the day's events: @CarwilBJ/1209176193930579974Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Brie concludes that Pedro Oshiro, the one civic movement casualty, was shot mistakenly by others on his side. As in Quillacollo in 2019, rumors of his and possibly more deaths on the civic side led to escalated violence.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Evidently, the MAS government (1) helped to arm a militia w/in the protesters on its side (as did the departmental government on the civic side); (2) rushed and sometimes faked autopsies to speed up its case against the cívicos. Neither of these justify the massacre.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Perversely, the Bolivian right has celebrated the civic movement perpetrators as political prisoners, and made prefect Leopoldo Fernández into a presidential candidate while he awaited trial for enabling the massacre.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Chaparina 2011: This was the definitive moment of rupture between the Morales government and the lowland indigenous movement. woborders.blog/2011/10/01/indigenous-march-for-tipnis-survives-blockade-and-violent-police-raid/Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Indigenous organizations CIDOB and CONAMAQ were in the midst of a cross-country march to defend the Isiboro Securé park and indigenous territory from a proposed roadway. The national government attempted to shut down the march and arrested hundreds of participants.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos As many as 220 protesters were wounded during the brutal raid. Indigenous leader Nazaret Flores, then two months pregnant, miscarried as a result of her injuries. eju.tv/2015/09/para-indigenas-bolivianos-las-heridas-de-chaparina-estan-abiertas/Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Shortly after the raid, there were reports that three children had died. In fact they had gone missing and were later found. In the interim, the name "Chaparina massacre" started.Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos Following the raid, three pregnant women miscarried. During the rest of the march, three marchers died, in a plane crash, falling out of a van, and of an infection. Here's coverage of the 2012 memorial. eju.tv/2012/05/indgenas-lloran-a-sus-mrtires-en-chaparina-esperan-a-evo-para-dialogar/Permalink On twitter.com
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@Replcaz @CIDH @ONU_derechos The cocaleros' Andrade kidnapping. The Calancha clashes. The civic movement's Porvenir massacre. The Morales government's repression at Chaparina. Four very different events.Permalink On twitter.com
