Security & Strategic Review August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA | Court hands down sentences for ‘genocide’. Five former high-ranking military officers and two former ministers have been convicted by the supreme court of ‘genocide in the modality of a bloody massacre’, for their part in the repression of protests in the ‘Black October’ of 2003, in which 64 people were killed and 500 were injured. The sentences varied according to the degree of responsibility the court deemed each of the accused had borne. The former commander of the armed forces, General Roberto Claros Flores, and the commander of the army, General Juan Veliz Herrera, were given 15 years and six months; a former air force commander, General Oswaldo Quiroga, and a navy commander, Admiral Luis Aranda, 11 years; the former chief of the armed forces’ general staff, General Gonzalo Rocabado Mercado, 10 years; and the former ministers Adalberto Kuajara (labour) and Erick Reyes Villa (sustainable development), three years.

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