This is the demand of the prosecutor of the Association of Victims of Crimes that left 10 dead and 60 injured in the city of El Alto on November 19, 2019 under Supreme Decree (DS) 4078, also known as “de la Death”. .
The regulations absolved the police and military from criminal responsibility for repressing those who protested in defense of the constitutional order.
“They (the prosecution) are called upon to investigate the hierarchy of the Catholic Church as an indirect author, not an intellectual, material author, accomplice or concealer, but as an indirect author,” said human rights activist and advocate for the victims and their families, David inca
The spokesman for the victims argued that members of the bishops’ conference attended meetings “at which the life and death of citizens, brothers in Christ, are decided.”
According to Inca in an interview with Wara TV, these religious leaders not only promoted the “extra-legal” negotiations for Jeanine Áñez to assume the presidency of Bolivia at the head of a de facto government, but also cracked down on the “Gaudium et Spes”. ‘ or Pastoral Constitution.
He added that it contains the words of the apostle Paul, who said, “The worst sin is the act of using the law to commit an unrighteous act.”
He insisted that the bishops involved were using the legislation to justify the de facto government violating something fundamental to the 10 Commandments: “Thou shalt not kill.”
He commented that they supported the Áñez regime, which issued the death decree, the substance of which violates the Church’s social teaching by expressing: “They can kill.”
On November 14, 2019, Áñez and her cabinet signed Executive Order 4078, authorizing the assassination with impunity of oppressors in operational actions against those demanding the return of democracy.
An interdisciplinary group of independent experts (GIEI), which studied the violence and deaths before, during and after the November 10, 2019 coup, stated in a report that Decree 4078 had raised concerns in international and civil society organizations .
The text stated that the DS was lifted on November 28, 2019, but by then the massacres had already been completed with more than twenty dead, hundreds wounded and arrested without a damning declaration from the religious leaders.
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