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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 05:00 PM
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1. Bolivia: Senior officials jailed over 2003 protests
30 August 2011 Last updated at 17:36 ET
Bolivia: Senior officials jailed over 2003 protests

Bolivia's Supreme Court has convicted five senior military officers in connection with the killings of 64 people during protests in 2003.

Four former generals and an admiral were sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in prison. Two former ministers were jailed for three years each for complicity in what was described as a "genocide".

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The Bolivian government has been seeking the extradition of at least eight former officials - the then President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and seven former ministers. They are living abroad or have gone into exile in the US, Peru and Spain.

President Sanchez de Lozada left the country before the end of his second term in office after the killings. He has been living in the US ever since.


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14725689
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