January 7, 2023, 10:39 PM
January 7, 2023, 10:39 PM
Complying with the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to the Bolivian State regarding Case 13,546 (called the Terrorism Case), the State Attorney General summoned Mario Tadic, Elöd Tóásó and other victims of the act (Juan Carlos Guedes and Alcides Mendoza) to a virtual meeting set for Tuesday, January 10, at 2:00 p.m., in order to address the first and second points of the four recommendations.
On December 21, 2021, the IACHR issued its report regarding this case that occurred in Bolivia in 2009. That document establishes four recommendations: comprehensive reparation with financial compensation to those affected; physical and mental rehabilitation with consent for the plaintiffs; initiation of criminal proceedings against those who violated the rights of the plaintiffs and adopt measures so that this type of situation does not occur again.
The petition, admitted in 2018, alleged the “international responsibility” of the Bolivian State for the “extrajudicial execution, torture and illegal detention of the alleged victims”that is to say: Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Árpád Magyarosi and Michael Martin Dwyer, who died during the assault, and Mario Tadic, Elöd Tóásó, Juan Guedes and Alcides Mendoza, who they were arrested (these last two were not in the hotel).
Gay Prado Araúz, who was a lawyer for the plaintiffs, indicates that the recommendations in general refer to the repair of the damages inflicted. “The The third recommendation refers to the violations as a whole, which were carried out in the operation at the Las Américas hotel. In the development of the entire document, the damages that each one has suffered are specified. But the human rights violations were for everyone in general, because everyone was treated as terrorists”, explains Prado.
Regarding the third recommendation, the Attorney General’s Office clarifies that it has unfiled a complaint that Mario Tadic would have sat down for the torture to which he was subjected.
However, Prado clarifies that the information in the document is wrong, because the Attorney General’s Office says that they unfiled the complaint filed in 2019 in Santa Cruz by Mario Tadic, when in reality Tadic denounced the fact in 2009 in La Paz.
“People have to listen to this meeting, with their lawyers and see what the State proposes. I imagine that Guedes and Mendoza They continue to suffer from the injuries they sustained while in prison. Some were clinically attended; others, no”, adds the lawyer.
The case was filed during the Government of Jeanine Áñez.
