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During the Sacaba massacre (according to today's #GIEIBolivia report) first police routed demonstrators, then soldiers pursued and shot them. The killing was punitive, not an artifact of clearing the street. This is a longstanding pattern in Bolivian repression. @CarwilBJ/1427830247144177669On twitter.com
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Other details at Sacaba were also punitive: shooting those helping the wounded, attacking ambulances, torturing and teargassing detainees. See quoted thread for details.Permalink On twitter.com
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Again and again over four decades, Bolivian police and soldiers have killed demonstrators in cold blood, after successful repression or at a distance from confrontations. Some examples…Permalink On twitter.com
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In 1987, during joint peasant–teacher demonstrations, the Bolivian Navy intervened to break up a blockade at Huatajata. They proceeded to invade homes and beat Francisca Huanca to death.Permalink On twitter.com
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During a September 2000 peasant–teacher blockade in Huarina, Toribio Chui Quispe was shot dead and his wife wounded while eating lunch 30 to 50m away from the blocked highway.Permalink On twitter.com
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In the September 20, 2003, Warisata massacre, soldiers pursued protesters throughout the town and shot Marlene Rojas Ramos, 9, through her home window.Permalink On twitter.com
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When police broke up the May 2010 Caranavi blockade (demanding a citrus processing plant), police pursued protesters throughout the town, killing teenagers Mario Fidel Hernan Jiménez and David Callisaya Mamani.Permalink On twitter.com
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Given this record, the security forces stand as tool either willing to dispense this kind of punishment at the direction of the national government, or perhaps eager to do so without that direction.Permalink On twitter.com
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Only by acknowledging this tendency (and sorting out how much it is a phenomenon of officers vs everyday troops) can we understand the rapid pivot towards repression in November 2019.Permalink On twitter.com