A high-ranking military leader’s testimony implicates Polwarte for repression

An opposition weekly revealed today that a senior military leader had told President Tina Polwart before the prosecutor’s office about the deadly acts during the opposition protests, which the president has repeatedly denied.

In this regard, the weekly magazine Hildebrand en sus Trace quoted General Manuel Gomez de la Torre, Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces.

A hearing before the Sepoy General Ministry, in the framework of a preliminary inquiry into genocide and aggravated murder, revealed that 49 civilians were killed, almost all of them shot dead, during protests against the promotion from last December to March. Boulder for the presidency.

“The report said the general initially admitted that then Defense Minister Alberto Otterola accompanied current Prime Minister Alberto Otterola to the Government Palace to inform the president how military operations in favor of the police were unfolding.”

The publication notes the fact that the report was submitted on December 17, two days after 10 civilians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during an opposition rally in the southern Andean city of Ayacucho.

It also quotes Gomez’s statement as saying that “the Minister of Defense and through him the President was briefed on military operations in support of the National Police.”

On June 6, a week before the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared before the prosecutor’s office, President Polwart did so, insisting that he had not been informed of, or had direct contact with, police and military operations to contain the protests. High command of law enforcement in times of crisis.

“President Tina Poluiarte was not telling the truth when she declared to the National Prosecutor’s Office that she had no direct knowledge of the strategic and operational plans of the armed forces to suppress protests against the government,” Hildebrand affirms in his Thirteen.

According to an earlier leak of his statement, the head of the Joint Command disclaimed operational responsibility for the actions taken, asserting that the army acted in accordance with established protocols for situations such as those raised.

National and international reports based on the victims’ testimonies and autopsies suggest that in dozens of cases they died of bullet wounds to the body and head, which proves intent to kill and merits the classification of extrajudicial executions, which the government denies.