The IACHR counted at least 23 deaths in Bolivia since the outbreak of the crisis in October

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) counted on Saturday four more deaths in the demonstrations in Bolivia regarding its balance of the day before, totaling "at least 23" dead since the outbreak of the crisis in October in this country.

"IACHR updates the numbers of victims in #Bolivia: since yesterday (Friday) there are 9 dead and 122 injured since the combined repression of the police and armed forces," the agency published on Twitter, which in a previous balance had accounted for five deceased only in Friday's clashes between loyalists to former president Evo Morales and the security forces.

The figures of the last deaths contributed by the IACHR coincide with those of the Ombudsman's Office of Cochabamba (center), which also estimated the number of deaths after nine clashes on Friday in that region.

However, they differ from those of the government that continues to keep the number of deaths that day by five. In this regard, the Minister of the Presidency, Xerxes Justinian, told reporters on Saturday night that he will ask “forensics to accelerate their work,” without giving a new balance.

"The serious decree of #Bolivia ignores international human rights standards and by its style stimulates violent repression," the agency said a tweet.

According to Decree 4078, approved last Thursday and released by unofficial channels this Saturday, the provisional government authorizes military participation in the restoration of public order and exempts military forces from criminal responsibility.

“The staff of the FF.AA. that participates in the operations for the restoration of internal order and public stability will be exempt from criminal responsibility when, in compliance with their constitutional functions, they act in self-defense or in a state of necessity ”, indicates article 3 of said Decree.

The norm was promulgated in the middle of the social upheaval, which has been exacerbated after Morales's resignation from the presidency.