Accusation in Bolivia
I (N.Z.P.A.-lleuter—Copyright) LA PAZ, Feb. 4. A Roman Catholic watch-; dog commission yesterday accused Bolivia's Armed; Forces of committing a (“massacre” last week when they opened fire to clear .peasant roadblocks isolating Cochabama. the nation’s I second largest city. ( The Bolivian Justice and (Peace Commission, in an open letter to President Hugh Banzer, said “according to; . eye-witnesses present, the! 'number of peasants killed in’ the Cochabama Valley: reached almost 100. I It added “all massacres are .inhuman, but they take on an even sadder appearance when carried out against the humble peasants of our coun-: ;try.” _
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33451, 5 February 1974, Page 13
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