Indigenous group lynches four policemen in Bolivia

Indigenous group lynches four policemen in Bolivia
Page last updated at 21:26 GMT, Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:26 UK

Members of an indigenous community in Bolivia say they have lynched four policemen in the province of Potosi. They accused the policemen, who belonged to a unit tackling car theft, of extortion.

The area is a well-known smuggling route for cars from neighbouring Chile.

A police chief said the group had threatened to kill anyone trying to retrieve the bodies.

'Thieves in disguise'

In a public meeting, five groups of Aymara and Quechua Indians, known as the Warrior Clans, said they had killed the four officers on Sunday. "Brothers, we did not kill police officers, we killed thieves disguised as police officers," one local leader is reported as telling the gathering.

Clan members said the police had been charging between $200 and $1,000 in exchange for turning a blind eye to the smuggling of cars from Chile.

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If a few african american criminals lynched some cops, imagine the uproar if the article said "Memebers of an African American Group lynched.." or something like that. It appears that the lynchers were simply criminals, and that they are indigenous is totally irrelevant.