Bolivia's Evo Morales to Investigate Dictatorship-Era Crimes with New Truth Commission [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Published 20 August 2017

According to Amnesty International, during Bolivia’s dictatorship years, 200 people were executed, 150 disappeared and 5,000 were detained for no reason.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales will appoint five members on Monday to take the oath for a newly launched Truth Commission aimed at researching crimes commtted during the military dictatorship-era from 1964 to 1982.

The Bolivian lawmaker Sonia Brito said the event will take place in the government palace on Monday, Aug. 21, and will also commemorate Hugo Banzer's coup d'état, 46 years ago.

The socialist government of Bolivian President Juan Jose Torres was overthrown in 1971 by General Hugo Banzer, a military general who attended military academies in the United States.

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