Butcher of Lyons arrested in Bolivia on this day in 1983 (from the 19th)

[Judi Lynn]

Butcher of Lyons arrested in Bolivia on this day in 1983

19 January 2008 | 01:18 | FOCUS News Agency

Butcher of Lyons arrested in Bolivia on this day in 1983. Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons, France, during the German occupation, is arrested in Bolivia for his crimes against humanity four decades earlier.
Legal wrangling, especially between the groups representing his Jewish and French Resistance victims, delayed his trial for four years. Finally, on May 11, 1987, the "Butcher of Lyons," as he was known in France, went on trial for 177 crimes against humanity. In a courtroom twist unimaginable four decades earlier, Barbie was defended by three minority lawyers--an Asian, an African, and an Arab--who made the dramatic case that the French and the Jews were as guilty of crimes against humanity as Barbie or any other Nazi. Barbie's lawyers were more interested in putting France and Israel on trial than in actually proving their client's innocence, and on July 4, 1987, he was found guilty. For his crimes, Klaus Barbie was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, France's highest punishment.

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Anyone interested would have a ton of important reading ahead in starting a search on Nazis in South America, on Klaus Barbi specifically, and on the movement to make Bolivia a "white" country in the 1960's, after displacing native Bolivianas and importing white South Africans and Rhodesians to farm the lands the indigenous Bolivians had formerly occupied before becoming thrown out of their own homelands. (See Bolivian US-supported dictator Hugo Banzer, as a starting point.)