Human rights commission calls on Morales to protect Amazon Indian tribes

Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 20:40 UTC

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The Inter American Human Rights Commission called on the Bolivian government to protect the indigenous tribes protesting the construction of a road crossing their reservation, following on reports of use of excess of force by the police in charge of containing the protest march. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
It will be interesting to see if the Inter-American Human Rights Commission have more success with Morales than they did with Chavez (Alledged corruption of opponent), or with Rousseff (Hydroelectric scheme).

It seems that 'in the national interest' trumps 'human rights' every time.
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