A court in Trinidad, capital of the Bolivian department of Beni, ordered the “temporary suspension” of the consideration of the massacre cases in Sacaba and Senkata by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ANP)
Judge Luz Acebey Arispe, of the Criminal Sentencing Court 3 of that city, admitted this Wednesday the action for freedom filed by the legal representative of the former Minister of Energy of the de facto Government, Álvaro Rodrigo Guzmán Collao, against the legislators Sonia Chini Coronado, Lineth Guzmán, Víctor Borda, Carol Montaño, Juan Cala, Patricia Gutiérrez and Eida Middaagh, members of the commission that wrote the report on the massacres.
The court decision provides that Parliament “temporarily suspend the consideration of the Final Report INF. CEMIHON Nro. 001 / 2019-2020, until the constitutional defense action is resolved ”.
In this regard, Deputy Víctor Borda, the president of the mixed commission that investigated both massacres following the call of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said that the judicial notification was communicated at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
The legislator affirmed that the intention of the precautionary measure is to avoid reading the report this Thursday afternoon. He assured that while the judicial hearing lasts, between 12:00 and 14:00, local time, the ANP will not deal with the cases.
The report contains testimonies from victims, reports from the Forensic Investigations Institute (IDIF), the Bolivian Police, the Defense and Hydrocarbons ministries, as well as a “general” response from the self-titled President Jeanine Áñez and other documents.
Based on it, the parliamentary mixed commission suggests that the Public Ministry initiate a liability trial against the de facto president, in addition to proceedings against the ministers Arturo Murillo and Luis Fernando López, and the then commanders of the Armed Forces and the Bolivian Police .
This commission found that 27 people who died in the crisis after the coup against Evo Morales, on November 10, 2019, were due to impacts from regulation bullets, unlike the recurring statements of Murillo and López, who said that the Armed Forces did not fire a single projectile in the joint interventions provided for in the abrogated Supreme Decree 4078.
The reading of the report is planned for the end of the ANP sessions this Thursday, subject to what the judiciary decides; and the influence that this may have on Parliament’s decisions in this regard
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