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The #GIEIBolivia report clarifies several murky deaths that happened during the 2019 Bolivian crisis. This results in 2 major revisions to the data I collected via secondary sources (yellow highlight), and confirmation of the apparent security force responsibility for 3 (green).Permalink On twitter.com
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GIEI concluded that Limbert Guzmán Vasquez was killed by an explosive that he or another RJC member was attempting to launch. He was not beaten to death by pro-MAS protesters. @CarwilBJ/1428012740652814339Permalink On twitter.com
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In a parallel case, the GIEI found that the circumstances of Juan José Mamani Larico's death were also falsified, and that he was killed by security forces.Permalink On twitter.com
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Mamani Larico was headed for a pro-MAS protest on Cochabamba's Avenida Petrolera when he was stopped and beaten by police, then put in a military vehicle with many other protesters.Permalink On twitter.com
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Inside a crowded military vehicle, soldiers kicked and beat the detainees and forced them to fall on top of one another, crushing those below. After calling out for breath, he was beaten further.Permalink On twitter.com
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At the Muyurina UTOP [Anti-riot and transit police] station, where others were taken out, he was no longer moving. The compression had sent blood to his head and ears, compounding his asphyxiation.Permalink On twitter.com
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The soldiers left Juan José Mamani Larico's lifeless body at Viedma Hospital without explanation. But he was claimed by the right-wing Resistencia Juvenil Cochala as one of their members, supposedly killed by MASistas.Permalink On twitter.com
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In both cases, the RJC's claim of victimhood seemed plausible in light of confrontations, and was given attention and resonance by the Cochabamba press.Permalink On twitter.com
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The GIEI report does not address the death of Filemón Soria Díaz, also killed in Cochabamba, but I hope this same level of investigative attention is paid to him.On twitter.com
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Meanwhile GIEI reporting confirms, or at least strengthens the case that security forces shot dead three men in La Paz's Pedregal neighborhood on November 11.Permalink On twitter.com
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Despite the security forces being the major adversary of the pro-MAS crowd in Yapacaní, the GIEI tried and failed to shed further light on the death of 15-year-old Filimón Salinas Rivera.Permalink On twitter.com