Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:54:44 -0400 Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net>
writes:
>>From today's paper in Cochabamba, Bolivia:
>
> La Paz (Los Tiempos).- The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces
>[of
>Bolivia], general Carlos Béjar, said yesterday that members of the
>military
>"have their own reality" and with that argument he declared himself in
>oppostion to re-opening investigations on the dictatorships of the
>'70s and
>'80s.
> [...]
> "Look, this [the dictatorships] is a natural concequence of our
>country's history and we can't judge what happened 20 years ago,
>because at
>that time conditions were different from today," he noted.
>
>Well, glad we put that to rest.
>
>Tom
>
>------------
>
>Original version:
>
> La Paz (Los Tiempos).- El comandante en Jefe de las Fuerzas
>Armadas,
>general Carlos Béjar, dijo ayer que los militares "tienen su propia
>realidad" y con ese argumento se declaró opuesto a reabrir las
>investigaciones en torno a las dictaduras de los años '70 y '80.
> [...]
> "Fíjese que esa es una consecuencia natural de la historia de
>nuestro
>país y no podemos juzgar lo que ha pasado hace 20 años, porque en ese
>momento las condiciones eran diferentes a las que estamos", acotó.
>
>
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