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Now that democracy has returned, Human Rights Watch boss Ken Roth pretends to have supported it and the MAS all along, despite being a key int'l driver in the fascist coup of 2019, and whitewashing massacres of indigenous resisters
But I won't forget it. And neither should you.
But I won't forget it. And neither should you.
HRW refused to apportion blame to the police death squads who mowed down protesters in November, keeping everyone in the dark about who was to blame, carrying water for the US-backed far-right coup government.
I wrote about it at the time. https://www.mintpressnews.com/human-rights-watch-right-wing-massacre-bolivia/262887/
I wrote about it at the time. https://www.mintpressnews.com/human-rights-watch-right-wing-massacre-bolivia/262887/
In November, the 
coup govt passed a law pre-exonerating death squads of all future crimes committed in the pacification of the state.
HRW merely called it a "problematic decree", as if it used insensitive language or something, not that it was a literal license to kill.
coup govt passed a law pre-exonerating death squads of all future crimes committed in the pacification of the state. HRW merely called it a "problematic decree", as if it used insensitive language or something, not that it was a literal license to kill.
Roth refused to use the word "coup" to describe the events, referring to them as a people's "uprising" against a "strongman" and a "transitional moment."
For decades, HRW's primary focus in Latin America has been to print "grossly flawed" reports on leftist governments in an attempt to manufacture consent for regime change. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4051
As Bernie Sanders' communications director wrote:
"Human Rights Watch’s deep ties to U.S. corporate and state sectors should disqualify the institution from any public pretense of independence.” https://nacla.org/article/hypocrisy-human-rights-watch
"Human Rights Watch’s deep ties to U.S. corporate and state sectors should disqualify the institution from any public pretense of independence.” https://nacla.org/article/hypocrisy-human-rights-watch
