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    Bolivian court convicts former military officers

    LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's highest court has convicted five former top military commanders of genocide in a 2003 crackdown on protesters that claimed at least 64 civilian lives. It gave them prison sentences ranging from 10-15 years.

    The court also convicted two former Cabinet ministers of complicity in the killings and sentenced them each to three years.

    Popular anger over the crackdown forced then-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada into U.S. exile. The protesters had been demanding he halt plans to export natural gas to Chile.

    Since being elected in 2005, President Evo Morales has tried to bring Sanchez de Lozada and members of his government to trial.

    But most fled, and Bolivian law prohibits trials in absentia.

     

    10 comments

    • master  •  8 mths ago
      Long live Evo. Viva Bolivia the true democratic nation by the people for the people. Not a surprise the USA harbors war criminals, just look at warmonger Bush.
    • chitos  •  8 mths ago
      "sad that most of them fled from justice and will never be subject to trial!"
    • rhegistur Endipendant  •  8 mths ago
      Patrick Henry
      "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
      • Harry Johnson 8 mths ago
        This has to do with Bolivia how?
      • FrankB 8 mths ago
        I thought it was founded on the principle of Europeans stealing from and killing the Native residents.
      • lapin-ga 8 mths ago
        WHAT KIND OF SHET YOU SMOKING?????
    • Bea Jesus  •  8 mths ago
      Let's extradite these murderous criminals back to Boliva, where justice awaits them. 20-30 years in a nice Andean prison, and they'll be rejuvenated and rehabilitated.
    • TRIPSTER  •  8 mths ago
      justice in bolivia with morales, how pathetic,all he knows to do is blame the USA for all his mistakes in the economy,he shuts down the main money making revenue that bolivia has and diverts at a heavily discounted rate to the tyrant chavez and his friends
      • John 8 mths ago
        who cares
    • Think it Through  •  8 mths ago
      Genocide means killing people to attempt to eradicate them from a population. Were the 64 people all one tribe? It just says they were civilians. Oh well, murder is murder.
      • lapin-ga 8 mths ago
        YOU NEED TO LOOK IT UP FIRST AND THEN YOU MAKE COMMENTS ................................
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      usa , a safe haven for criminals.... this is good ...it outrages bolibians...good...
    • J  •  8 mths ago
      Stupid people stayed in Bolivia too long.
      • Chuckington Xavier Cheese ... 8 mths ago
        this doesnt even make sense! have you ever been there? known anyone from there? from understanding because i am FROM there, youll never know the kind of people that originate from there, judging from the Stupid comment you posted. You fool.
      • lapin-ga 8 mths ago
        YOU SMOKING CRACK AGAIN???
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      Good, this is good, it weakens usa , bolibia is not us backyard anymore.these criminals were us lackeys.usa is weak.
    • FACTS_VS_IDIOTS  •  8 mths ago
      I wish all presidents had the balls of this one. stand for the people and the justice. kick al American money and influence back. long live the Bolivarian union.
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