Opposition Figure Seeks to Charge Ex-President
From Times Wire Reports
Bolivia’s leading opposition congressman said he has asked for genocide charges to be brought against former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada for the bloody attempt to suppress a popular revolt that ousted him last week.
Coca farmer and indigenous leader Evo Morales, who serves in Bolivia’s lower house, said he asked the attorney general to bring the charges before Congress after at least 80 people died in the monthlong uprising.
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