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The #GIEIBolivia devotes a section to Senkata, the bloodiest day in Bolivian protest since 2003. 11 people were killed, though GIEI couldn't verify the final death from injuries. It terms the events a massacre, and a "conjunction of extrajudicial executions"Permalink On twitter.com
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Around 80 more people were wounded. The GIEI interviewed 41, 21 of whom consented to have their names published. The GIEI investigation did not locate all of these shootings, but says many occurred away from the original point of confrontation.Permalink On twitter.com
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Interviewee: "There were 15 to 20 people participating in a demonstration at the Plaza Cruce Achocalla. After the confrontation at the Senkata Plant, people and police began to run to where we were. That was where I was shot." 4km away.Permalink On twitter.com
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GIEI: repression far from the original site reinforces the case that the violence was unnecessary and disproportionate the the threat posed by demonstrators.Permalink On twitter.com
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People who were shot and bleeding were denied medical treatment because of their presumed affiliation with the protests or the MAS-IPSP party.Permalink On twitter.com
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Amid the climate of fear, six people who were killed were laid in state at the San Francisco de Asis Church and given forensic autopsies there under inadequate conditions. State forensic doctors gravely offended family members who saw these autopsies.Permalink On twitter.com
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The GIEI found that authorities' claim that they acted to prevent an explosion at the plant was unfounded. As explained by Guido Alejo, vulnerable YPFB facilities were 450m from the confrontation. woborders.blog/2020/01/12/senkata-legitimizing-repression/Permalink On twitter.com
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GIEI: "the sensitive structures of the plant were not threated by the protests' acts of vandalism." Protesters knocked over part of the facility's wall by hand. Then the shooting began.Permalink On twitter.com
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In the ensuing street confrontation, protesters set cars and a minibus on fire, while soldiers fired live ammunition. Again, these acts seem to have been confined to the area around the plant. The shootings persisted for six hours and extended far beyond.Permalink On twitter.com
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GIEI: "In the most serious cases, [we] identified a abusive, illegal, and arbitrary manner of acting, with the use of firearms that caused the death of passersby and demonstrators [in] the Senkata massacre…Permalink On twitter.com
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"… as well as the violent action to impede the exercise of peaceful protest, as notoriously occurred in the case of the Sacaba massacre." (p. 327). Report online here: gieibolivia.org/informes/On twitter.com
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At least five of the 11 people killed in Senkata were uninvolved bystanders according to family or witness accounts. GIEI report acknowledges issue, but did not clarify individual deaths.Permalink On twitter.com
