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The Bolivian newspaper Duty brought to light a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that accuses the government of Evo Morales of extrajudicial executions and torture against a group of people in 2009, in the operation known as the “Rózsa case.” What consequences can it have?
According to the Bolivian newspaper Dutya report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) determined that, in April 2009, extrajudicial executions and torture ordered by the government of Evo Morales against five members of an alleged armed group took place at the Las Américas hotel. , and urged that those responsible be prosecuted.
“Take responsibility”
This report, signed on December 21, 2021, is not official, says political scientist Marcelo Silva, since it has not been released by the IACHR. “If the report is true, then the Bolivian State, as a signatory of the IACHR, will have to assume the responsibilities that this court undoubtedly establishes. So, the first element is that the Bolivian State has to compensate what the IACHR is considering as a violation and as extrajudicial executions”, he comments.
The Bolivian media indicates that the report is in the prelude to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which could judge the Bolivian State. But, to avoid a trial, the country must obey four recommendations: repair the violations committed with compensation measures, take physical and mental health care measures for the victims, take measures so that similar acts do not occur in the future, and investigate and punish those responsible.
“Open struggle” between Luis Arce and Evo Morales
“It is not established that it be done immediately, this must be clarified well, a specific trial of certain people, but an investigation. And this goes directly in relation to or in line with former President Evo Morales – it will be necessary to see what his degree of responsibility is in this – and the Ministers of State who at the time also made this decision, especially the Minister of Government at that time, who He was undoubtedly in charge of the operation”, underlines Marcelo Silva.
According to the political scientist, “this is becoming a little more complex now, because there is an open conflict in the country between President Luis Arce Catacora and the head of the political party, Evo Morales. And of course, everything points to seeing very carefully what determination, if this report becomes official, that the government of President Luis Arce could make in relation to this injunction that the IACHR would be making.”
