Bolivia: 13 More Individuals Arrested for Massacres During Coup [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

The former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Pablo Arturo Guerra Camacho, was arrested
at his home by the DACI in compliance with an order from the Public Prosecutor's Office.
| Photo: Twitter/@RadioSplendid

Published 26 July 2021

The Bolivian justice system arrested General Pablo Arturo Guerra as part of the investigations into the military repression in 2019.


With the apprehension of the former Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces, General Pablo Arturo Guerra Camacho, there are now 13 people arrested for the investigations into the November 2019 coup d'état against Evo Morales and the massacres that occurred in Sacaba and Senkata.

In compliance with an order from the Public Prosecutor's Office, the military official's home was raided this Sunday in the city of La Paz, where he was arrested and later transferred to the premises of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc).

The general is one of the members of the Armed Forces high command, appointed by the then de facto president Jeanine Áñez,

Guerra Camacho, along with two former commanders and the former director of the National Hydrocarbons Agency, Luis Fernando Valverde, is accused of the violence and the 10 deaths from bullet impacts in Senkata, El Alto, on November 19, 2019.

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Coup d’état and massacres in Sacaba and Senkata: the reasons why 17 Bolivian military, police and civilians have already been detained
Published by: MRT

Published on: July 28, 2021

Golpe de Estado y masacres en Sacaba y Senkata: los motivos por los que ya fueron detenidos 17 militares, policías y civiles bolivianos


The Bolivian Justice accelerated the arrests of the main implicated in the coup against the Government of Evo Morales and the massacres in the cities of Sacaba and Senkata that occurred in November 2019 and for which until now 13 soldiers, one ex-police officer and three civilians have already been captured led by de facto former president Jeanine Áñez, although the arrests are expected to continue in the coming weeks.

Only in the last six days were the former commander of the Army, Iván Inchauste, apprehended; former Chief of Staff Pablo Arturo Guerra Camacho; the former commander general of the Navy, Orlando Mejía; former Army Colonel Luis Alberto Pacheco and former member of an elite group of the Armed Forces, Franz Vargas.

The arrests began on November 11 of last year, just three days after the inauguration of Luis Arce as democratically elected president ended Áñez’s regime.

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In a preliminary report published in December 2019, the IACHR denounced that, according to the testimonies obtained, in both cases police and military fired firearms at unarmed protesters, in addition to being sprayed with tear gas and also beaten and tortured.

Waiting for the report
The Sacaba and Senkata massacres left at least 18 dead and hundreds injured, but the IACHR itself acknowledged at the time that there were strong suspicions that the list of victims was actually longer.ed?
The political violence that Bolivia suffered at the end of 2019, after the October presidential elections, had one of its culminating points on November 10, when Morales was forced to resign due to harassment and threats from the military and security forces.

A couple of days later, Áñez proclaimed herself president, which triggered violent attacks on social protest throughout the country, particularly against the militants and supporters of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) who held massive marches to denounce and repudiate the coup.

One of the most serious repressions occurred on November 15 in Sacaba, a city located in the department of Cochabamba, where Omar Calle, César Sipe, Juan López, Emilio Colque, Lucas Sánchez, Plácido Rojas Delgadillo, Armando Carvallo Escobar, Marco Vargas Martínez and Roberto Sejas were murdered.

Four days later it took place the Senkata massacre, a town in El Alto, in which Devi Posto Cusi, Pedro Quisberth Mamani, Edwin Jamachi Paniagua, José Colque Patty, Juan José Tenorio Mamani, Antonio Ronald Quispe, Clemente Mamani Santander, Rudy Cristian Vásquez Condori and Calixto Huanacu Aguilar died.

In a preliminary report published in December 2019, the IACHR denounced that, according to the testimonies obtained, in both cases police and military fired firearms at unarmed protesters, in addition to being sprayed with tear gas and also beaten and tortured.

Waiting for the report
The Sacaba and Senkata massacres left at least 18 dead and hundreds injured, but the IACHR itself acknowledged at the time that there were strong suspicions that the list of victims was actually longer.

At the national level, it reported that, in total, In the protests held in those days, 37 people had been killed.

The investigations into these events took a surprising turn at the beginning of July, when the Bolivian government denounced that former President Mauricio Macri had supported Áñez with weapons. One of the main lines of investigation is that the material was used in the repressions.

In 2019, the IACHR recommended the formation of an International Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), to investigate the complaints. This team was formed in November, with Arce already as president, and last Saturday it delivered its conclusions to the Government, which will make them public in early August.

The expectation is that the IACHR document will demonstrate that human rights violations were committed and that it will help to initiate a process of reparation for the victims, their families, and society in general, based on the trials and convictions against them. the responsible.

Cecilia Gonzalez

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