By Dunk
Tue Apr 28, 2009 17:14
Bolivians link Dwyer to boss behind mercenary gang
Irish Examiner, By Stephen Rogers
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0428...ia=mr
BOLIVIAN authorities believe Irishman Michael Dwyer and two others gunned down by security forces following an alleged plot to kill the president last week were working for a rich local businessman (Branko Marinkovic) who wants to divide the country.
Serbian media yesterday reported that Bolivian officials had linked Dwyer, Eduardo Rosza Flores and Magyarosi Árpád to the businessman who is of Croat descent and who, they believe, is fighting for the autonomy of rich provinces in the South American country.
The businessman, whose father is a Croat and mother is Montenegrin, allegedly organised terrorists and brought in Montenegrin mercenaries, according to Serbian newspaper Blic.
Dwyer was shot six times. (not correct due to latest autopsy findings)
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has rejected any suggestion that the alleged plot to kill Bolivian President Evo Morales was in any way backed by his country’s embassy.
Croats in Bolivia accuse of conspiracy to divide the country
Hrvate u Boliviji optužuju za zaveru za podelu zemlje
BLIC : http://www.blic.rs/svet.php?id=88946
translation: http://translate.google.es/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es...ate0=
Croatian media reported that the Bolivian government assassination connect with Branko Marinkovic, a rich businessman Croatian-Montenegrin origin and Head of the opposition, which advocates autonomy for the rich provinces.
Bolivian state media claim that the manufacturer Marinkovic, whose father is a Croat, a mother Crnogorka Radmila Jovicevic, organized by the alleged terrorists. Simon Romero, Head of dopisništva "New York Times" from Bolivia, said the Croatian media that the journalists investigated rumors that leads Marinković mercenaries from Montenegro.
Plot Foiled? In Bolivia, Truth Is Elusive
SIMON ROMERO, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/americas/28boli....html
“These terrorists were connected to an ideology of the extreme fascist right,” said Álvaro García Linera, a former Marxist guerrilla who is Bolivia’s vice president.
But the episode, with its dash of Balkan intrigue, remains far from an open-and-shut case of right versus left.
Meanwhile, the killings have raised a raft of nettlesome questions. Who backed such a group? How did officials detect them? Why did Mr. Morales send the police all the way from the capital, La Paz, to deal with them? And exactly what was a man like Mr. Rozsa Flores, at turns a poet and a war correspondent before his foray into the Balkan killing fields, doing back in Santa Cruz?
Mr. Rozsa Flores abandoned journalistic objectivity and took sides. He commanded volunteers fighting for Croatia in the early 1990s, but his battlefield experience was marred by claims that he oversaw the murder of a Briton and a Swiss citizen.
Returning to Hungary after the war, Mr. Rozsa Flores converted to Islam, a shift from his earlier association with Opus Dei, the conservative Roman Catholic group. And he found a new political obsession, explaining in a television interview last year with a Hungarian journalist that he was moving to Bolivia to organize a militia.
“There is a need for weapons,” he said in the interview, which was broadcast for the first time in Hungary last week after his killing, “so it isn’t about the boys marching in the streets with flags and bamboo sticks.” (How well was Dwyer aware of this? Did he support it the full hog, getting the tattoo to boot?)
Mr. Rozsa Flores went further in the interview, saying his goal was not toppling Mr. Morales, but achieving autonomy for Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s wealthiest department, or province. Envisioning a clash with capital La Paz over this issue, he nonchalantly described his goal as “declaring independence and creating a new country.”
Such assertions fit well into the way Mr. Morales’s government portrays Santa Cruz: as a region where powerful industrialists and bankers, some of them descendants of Croatian immigrants, want to secede from Bolivia in a rupture inspired by Yugoslavia’s disintegration.
Times - Postmortem shows Dwyer was killed by single gunshot
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0428....html
MICHAEL DWYER, the Tipperary man who was shot dead by police in Bolivia, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, an initial postmortem examination has indicated.
The body of the 24-year-old was so badly decomposed that his identity had to be confirmed using dental records.
Family of man shot in Bolivia wait on result of post mortem
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/family-of-man-s....html
Journalists at a press conference in La Paz were shown a video reportedly of Michael Dwyer discussing how to assassinate Bolivian president Evo Morales.
State prosecutor Marcelo Sosa told reporters the footage shows the Irishman with Eduardo Rózsa Flores and Arpad Magyaros discussing a bomb attack against Mr Morales on Lake Titicaca.
Mr Sosa, who is tasked with investigating the killings of the men, said the three-minute mobile phone video shows the men talking about blowing up a boat with Bolivian ministers on board.
Local reports said the video was supplied by a man linked to Eduardo Rózsa Flores.
Tribune - Dwyer funeral to be held after post-mortem
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/apr/2...rtem/
Indo - Dwyers welcome post mortem after son's shooting death
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dwyers-welcome-....html
vid:
Dwyer bomb plotting in bolivia? TV bolivia, outlining Dwyer in red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K23xsR2G68
