143. Article 98 of the Organic Law of the Armed Forces establishes that "[t]he classified documentation of the Military Rank is secret and inviolable. This condition may only be lifted: a. At the reasoned request of the Legislative Power. b. By judicial [o]rder of the competent Judge, through a reasoned order in formal proceedings. In both cases, the information must be forwarded to the requester through the commander in chief and must be kept confidential." 194. 144. Ministerial Resolution No. 316/09 authorizes the Armed Forces Command in Chief to facilitate access to family members and victims of regimes subject to military dictatorships to archives, public records, and existing documents of the Armed Forces, who so request and demonstrate a legitimate interest (supra para. 63). B.2.2 Criminal proceedings "Public Prosecutor v/ Franz Pizarro Solano et al." 145. According to the file, the Flores Bedregal sisters requested the declassification of the archives of the Armed Forces in the process of the "Public Prosecutor v/ Franz Pizarro Solano et al." (supra para. 51). However, this process was resolved at the appeals level on August 22, 2008, without the right of access to information being granted to the Flores Bedregal sisters (supra para. 55). 146. On February 15, 2010, in cassation, the Flores Bedregal sisters reiterated before the First Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation their request for the declassification of the documents filed in the Second Department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the report of entries and exits to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and access to military archives (supra para. 59). On March 12, 2010, the Appeals Prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General also requested that the Supreme Court of Justice grant the request for declassification of files of the Armed Forces (supra para. 59). These requests were accepted in Supreme Order No. 125 of the First Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which on April 1, 2010, ordered the General Commander of the Armed Forces to proceed "with the declassification of the files existing in the Second Department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from June 1979 to December 1980, and the report of entries and exits to the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 10 to 20, 1980, certified photocopies must be sent" to that court (supra para. 59). On April 16, 2010, the same Chamber, at the request of Mrs. Olga Flores Bedregal, supplemented the previous order and by Supreme Order No. 167 added to the declassification order, the documents relating to the Armed Forces Personnel Rank existing in the General Staff from June 1979 to December 1980 (supra para. 59). On October 25, 2010, the Supreme Court of Justice issued a cassation judgment that confirmed the criminal conviction of the accused without the information having been presented in the proceedings (supra para. 61). 147. On September 28, 2010, in the context of criminal proceedings brought by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the request of victims of the dictatorship of Luis García Meza Tejada against perpetrators (No. 6441/09) before the Eighth Magistrate's Court on Precautionary Criminal Matters, a visual inspection was allegedly carried out by a commission of prosecutors on the premises of the General Staff (supra para. 60) and by official letter of October 19, 2010, in criminal proceedings No. 6441/09, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces allegedly complied with the Supreme Orders of the First Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and the decisions of the Eighth Magistrate's Court on Precautionary Criminal Matters 195 sending legalized photocopies in three sealed envelopes. The Court emphasizes 194 Cf. Organic Law on the Armed Forces, Law No. 1405 of December 30, 1992, article 98. Available at: https://www.mindef.gob.bo/mindef/node/29 195 In process No. 6441/09, the Eighth Magistrate's Court on Precautionary Criminal Matters issued three resolutions ordering access to military archives: (a) on 16 September 2009, Resolution No. 384/2009; (b) February 44

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