UNASUR report “biased” says Bolivian opposition

Earlier this week we mentioned of a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) report claiming that the killings of twenty Bolivians in September was a massacre. The UNASUR panel noted that most of the dead were pro-government supporters caught up during several weeks of violence in the Bolivian province of Pando.

In this AP article, an opposition senator from Pando reacted to the report; guess how he replied:

Bolivian opposition leaders accused an international commission Thursday of bias toward President Evo Morales (image) in its report on a September jungle "massacre" in which at least 19 people were killed…

"It seems to me this was a report made to measure for the government," Pando Sen. Paolo Bravo told The Associated Press. "They accepted the testimony from one side as truth, but said testimony from the other side had no validity at all."

Sadly, tensions continue to be high between factions for and against Morales and that conflict won’t subside any time soon.

Image- BBC News
Sources- The Latin Americanist, IHT, Canada.com