Dump trucks as a killing platform
September 15, 2008
Bolivia: Six Accounts from the Porvenir Massacre
ABN, La Patria Nueva, Erbol
Translation: Machetera
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 10:02 p.m.
Cobija. - After military troops sent by the government of Evo Morales took control of Pando department, the accounts from survivors of last Thursday’s Porvenir Massacre where there are 30 dead, 25 wounded and 106 missing, began to multiply, reported the Bolivian government and the Pando Peasant Workers Federation.
The Bolivarian Erbol Broadcasters Network and Radio Patria Nueva have compiled some of them, which we present in this note.
“They shot at pregnant women and children”
Today a woman leading the Bolivian peasants denounced the fact that during yesterday’s confrontation in Pando, armed opposition groups killed pregnant women and children and those who were driven to the Tahuamanu river.
In statements to Patria Nueva, the peasant leader, who didn’t wish to give her name for fear of reprisals said that the farming comrades were “victims of racism” and added that “the objective of the massacres was met.” “There were pregnant women, boys and girls who were killed when they crossed the river to escape; they shot them and pushed them into the water,” she said.
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Luigino Bracci Roa - Yvke Mundial, Erbol, ABI
Translation: Machetera
Monday, September 15, 2008. 8:21 a.m.
La Paz. - On Sunday the Executive Branch made it clear that it will not negotiate over the deaths from the Pando massacre, nor the responsibility of its material authors, and confirmed, in alluding to the Prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández, that “murderers are not valid interlocutors.”
The Vice President of the Republic, Álvaro García Linera, and the Vice Minister for Coordination with Social Movements, Sacha Llorenti, both made this clear this Sunday at the Palacio Quemado, prior to meetings with the Prefect of Tarija, Mario Cossío, who brought the position of his brethren grouped in the so-called Democratic National Council (Conalde).
“The Government is not going to negotiate the deaths, the Government is not going to negotiate the criminal responsibility of those who perpetrated the massacre, the killers. This is a separate point, it will not enter into the meeting,” García Linera assured emphatically. He indicated that at a table for dialogue with the opposition prefects, the criminal would be differentiated from claims, affirming that departmental autonomy and the redistribution of resources from the Direct Tax on Hydrocarbons would be part of the dialogue.
In that context, he indicated that those responsible for the “Porvenir Massacre” as well as the fallen in Cobija, where at least 14 people were killed, will face the
process and jail. He said that the Government would not negotiate the acts “of criminal terrorism” against the country’s energy facilities, such as the closure of valves and the attempts to sabotage the pipelines, which took place in the department of Tarija.
“The killers, the slaughterers, the criminals will be pursued, judged and incarcerated. This is not up for debate and no-one outside the judicial, police or military arena has any reason to involve themselves,” said García Linera. He reproached certain senators and prefects who want to “extend a mantle of impunity over the massacre,” which took place in recent days in Pando department, whose governor is the Prefect Leopoldo Fernández, and who has also linked up with drug traffickers in order to sow terror in the region. “This gentleman (Leopoldo Fernández), responsible for one or two dozen Bolivians has to assume his responsibility before justice,” he underlined.
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