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Huge and highly significant report by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts for Bolivia #GIEIBolivia has been released today. Using exceptional access to documents, interviews, and forensic data, they paint a detailed picture of violence and HR abuse in 2019 crisis. @PauloAbrao/1427671767821193222Permalink On twitter.com
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Who is the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts for Bolivia? An independent investigative team convened by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, and agreed to by the Áñez govt. woborders.blog/2020/05/03/expert-group-investigate/Permalink On twitter.com
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English coverage of the report's release, which followed a careful process of sharing the findings first with survivors of abuse. apnews.com/article/caribbean-bolivia-454d1102672f6fbc1e47dab7eca66714Permalink On twitter.com
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Top-line conclusions of the #GIEI report echo the prescient and heroic work of the IACHR in gathering testimony from survivors in the first fifteen days after the Senkata, Sacaba massacres. woborders.blog/2019/12/19/iachr-sacaba-senkata-massacres/Permalink On twitter.com
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Honesty, ethics, and the political polarization of Bolivia required an inquiry that would consider the deaths, violence, and abuse on all sides of the 2019 conflict, and the GIEI report clearly covers all confirmed deaths…On twitter.com
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… and details a number of conflict events before and after Evo Morales' ouster from power.Permalink On twitter.com
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Sharing my prior coverage of deaths in the 2019 crisis: woborders.blog/2020/01/04/2019-crisis-deaths-analysis/Permalink On twitter.com
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And situating the 2019 crisis in context of the democratic period since 1982… woborders.blog/2020/05/19/research-paper-repression/Permalink On twitter.com
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Bolivia has a long tradition of thorough documentation of human rights abuses, and but also a tradition of little meaningful judicial accountability for them. The first tradition continues; may the second be broken here.Permalink On twitter.com