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In 2019 Bolivia, the IACHR took the genuinely heroic step of convening public hearings for survivors of the Senkata, Sacaba massacres less than two weeks after these deadly events. These t @CarwilBJ/1426014079014080512
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These events brought an umbrella of international protection to survivors and their testimony, at a time when (as the ITEI reported) people were still being illegally detained and tortured for denouncing the violence at Senkata.
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The impulse of the IACHR, including Paolo Abrao who later suffered the wrath of Luis Almagro, was to get on a plane and fly into the trouble.
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This echoed earlier bravery and chutzpah by the founding generation of the Inter-American Human Rights System challenging Pinochet.