Evo Morales Demands Justice for 2019 Senkata Massacre

[Judi Lynn]

Relatives of the fallen in Senkata ask for justice while they commemorate one year of the
Senkata massacre with a mass and a march in El Alto, Bolivia, where 10 people died during
a police and army operation. | Photo: EFE

Published 19 November 2020

Evo Morales called for the punishment of the authors of the massacre in El Alto, where ten people died in a military operation ordered by the Anez coup government.

"The Bolivian justice system, by its initiative, by its commitment to life, must move forward with the investigation and find those responsible," the former president of the Andean country, Evo Morales, said this Thursday on Twitter, at the same time that he expressed his solidarity with the wounded and the families of the victims of the Senkata massacre, that occurred in 2019.

Morales, forced to resign from the presidency on November 10, 2019, left the country to pacify the social unrest that ensued after a coup d'état orchestrated by the opposition and supported by the US. He asserted that "there cannot be impunity" without directly mentioning the self-proclaimed interim president Jeanine Áñez, singled out by Parliament as the main responsible for these deaths.

The leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) made these statements during a ceremony held in Senkata, a neighborhood of El Alto, to honor the ten victims and human rights activists on the first anniversary of the massacre.

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