The trial against Leopoldo Fernandez and other 25 defendants entered yesterday in the foundation stage test of impeachment by the death of 13 peasants and normalcy in the slaughter of Porvenir, Pando.
Al recalled two years of the slaughter of Porvenir, held on September 11, 2008, victims demand justice. On August 4, with the reading of the foundations and charges, was formally opened the trial against Leopoldo Fernandez and his staff.
"Despite the time elapsed, the slaughter of Porvenir will survive," says a document of the Committee to Promote the trial of former prefect of Pando and colleagues. The testimonies of the victims still keep the story fresh of aggression. "In the mourning days, 15 farmers were arrested by civilians, reported having been tied with wire and beaten several times. Many were detained in the prison of Villa Busch (Cobija), for a week, "says Witman Rojas, a farmer in the Philadelphia community, during the first hearing that he gave his testimony. "After more than an hour of chasing dead in truck, caught me. They were civilian men who beat me with other farmers and put us in a truck heading the Civic Committee, from there we took the FELCC, then again the Civic Committee. We hit the exit and entry ... fire must throw them said, " told this victim of violence in Pando.
Chivi For Don Moses, director general of the Multinational Public Administration Vice Decolonization under the Ministry of Culture, "September in the Porvenir was an abrupt closure of a chain of events leading to Sucre, Santa Cruz and Tarija. It was a close as revealing the size of coloniality in our elites. " Chivi
Pando says that racism led to genocide. "A genocide that comes from behind, that come first colonialism. The deaths of the 11 (September) were the usual: the Indians, "he says.
Racism, he says, not a matter of rude young, immature adults or social misfits. It is a complex system of lifestyle that clearly express a contemporary coloniality Bolivia today is in the process of decolonization, he adds.
TRIBUTE
The Judgement Against Promoter Committee Leopoldo Fernández and his colleagues today in La Paz, will perform a tribute to the fallen and victims of the slaughter of Pando. Photographic exhibitions, presentation of the work Tahuamanu, racism and slaughter in the Bolivian Amazon, and cultural events in El Prado will join the festivities in Cobija, where they discover the Monument Against Shame, a structure located in the central square of Cobija to symbolize the people's ability to stand up against violence and racism. The float represents the pain of injustice in the faces of suffering peasants, but dressed in the value of the pumas and tigers, symbols of the region.
Today Saturday marks two years of the tragic events in Porvenir in the department of Pando and still no one convicted of this case. The lawsuit filed earlier this year, and after many obstacles, making slow progress.
The Sixth Court Judgement in session on Friday in double shifts and concluded the oral foundations of formal charges filed against 27 defendants, among which is the former prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández.
For Freddy Panique, chairman of the steering committee of Judgement the process advanced by 25% and subsequent hearings will try to expedite the process.
"incident comes a stage and exceptions, and the hardest stage to be presented is precisely where you would produce the evidence of witnesses. "
For his part, former prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández main accused in the case, two years of the events in Porvenir reiterated his innocence, announcing that when the time will prove it conclusively.
"All we wanted to make sufficient efforts to find the real culprits, in this view there is not even evidence of involvement of anyone who may have been perpetrators or instigators of the murder of Pastor Rivero or engineer or soldier Oshiro Sinani, it shows the bias that is why the charge seems that death had only one side, "he said.
The plaintiff, Mary Carrazco, a lawyer for the families of the victims of Porvenir evidence to indicate that Leopoldo Fernandez, Pando prefect instead of protecting the inhabitants of the department instructed the two trenches dug in the area barracks for fencing to farmers.
"No wonder they say they are not repentant prosupuesto, hatred, racism remain so, we have a thesis, they have another and then we'll see with the same rules who can prove what we are saying," said .
The morning of September 11, 2008 from dawn officials of the Prefecture of Pando clashed with farmers who were moving toward Cobija, during the day there were several violent incidents that took the lives of at least 12 people and caused days later issued a state of siege in Pando.
The report on the slaughter of Pando on Tuesday introduced the Special Committee to the temporary president of UNASUR, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's, demand justice, provides strong support for the defense of human rights and democracy and a blow against impunity idad.La president pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) received the report from the hands of Argentine jurist Rodolfo Mattarollo, after 40 days, on 15 September, as the Special Committee to investigate the slaughter of at least 18 people in the Bolivian Amazon region of Porvenir, Pando.
After receiving the document, to be socialized among the presidents of the 12 Member States of UNASUR, the chairman of the Commission said that the work "contributes to strengthening the rule of law not only in Bolivia, but throughout the region. "
argued that members of the Special Committee acted research of the tragic events "according to our intellectual and moral convictions" and asserted that "this is a commission that could be called the Truth Commission, establishment of facts, not a criminal court."
According Mattarollo, Unasur researchers undertook their task as the Rettig Commission, which in 1990 clarified the serious human rights violations occurred during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. In the same vein, the President of Chile highlighted by an official statement, "the report makes an important contribution of UNASUR to law to justice and ending impunity in the region. "
The special commission was created by the Declaration Mint, 15 September, to investigate the tragic events in Pando, where at least 18 people were dead, dozens injured and missing, presumably by gunmen linked to the former prefect Leopoldo Fernandez, an inmate of a jail in La Paz.
After several weeks of work, which included visits to the scene, evidence and expert opinion , the Commission produced a report containing conclusions and recommendations will be brought to the attention of Heads of State and Government of the UNASUR Government of Chile reported.
"Bachelet has asked us to publicize the recommendations, once the chairs are made aware of this report, and especially President Evo Morales," said Mattarollo
Speaking to reporters, the Argentine jurist explained that the mandate of the Commission received on 15 September was blunt: "review the facts with impartiality, professionalism and making recommendations to combat impunity, and we tried to perform."
Mattarollo said that members of this mission confident that "the recommendations and conclusions serve to strengthen the rule of law not only in Bolivia, but throughout the region, which has followed with much interest these dramatic events. "
For his part, former Chilean Foreign Minister Juan Gabriel Valdes, who also was part of the mission, quoted by Efe said that "in light of what we know, no doubt it was the right decision of the presidents of UNASUR to establish this committee to directly investigate the facts."
UNASUR - SLAUGHTER
The Nov. 20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mattarollo gave a brief report on the slaughter in Pando September 11 which confirmed that the deaths of 18 farmers and disappearance of at least 70 others it was a slaughter.
On the commission of such crimes against humanity, the Special Committee was established that some "local authorities are legally responsible and able to identify them."
The incident occurred on the outskirts of the town of Porvenir where indigenous people were demonstrating in defense of the government of Evo Morales, were ambushed and killed in cold blood by paramilitary gunmen. This report also mentions the former president of the Bolivian Senate, opposition leader José Villavicencio, who walks on camera shouting. "If Evo wants blood, there will be blood ", harangued, background while a mob ran dead a group of Indians.
A meeting with the Head of State of Chile, and members of the Special Committee of the UNASUR, attended by the Minister Affairs, Alejandro Foxley, Secretary Pro Tempore Unasur, Angel Flisfisch, and members of the special commission headed by the lawyer Rodolfo Mattarollo Mattarollo.Además of Juan Gabriel Valdes were Fouillioux Luciano (Chile), Fermino Fechio (Brazil), Francisco Borja ( Ecuador), Guido Toro (Peru), Carlos Pita (Uruguay), Freddy Gutiérrez (Venezuela), Fulvia Benavides (Colombia) and Nicolas Gutman, and Ciro Eduardo Zuain Annichiarico (Argentina).
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