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Bolivia stops work on Amazon road
27 September 2011 booth 07: 31 GMT 
allegations of police violence against demonstrators triggered further protests in the Bolivian cities of Bolivian President Evo Morales work on a motorway has suspended built in the Amazon, in national furore about the way against the street was treated.
allegations of police violence against demonstrators triggered further protests in the Bolivian cities of Bolivian President Evo Morales work on a motorway has suspended built in the Amazon, in national furore about the way against the street was treated.On Sunday police fired, tear gas and hundreds of activists, staging a demonstration against the road rounded up.
Stop a Minister in protest and Mr Morales condemned the action, when he announced the project suspension.
Now he says that he decide on the future of local regions will allow for the road.
"It must... decide so the two provinces [Cochabamba and Beni] involved in a national debate" In the meantime the project is exposed to, "Mr Morales said, according to Reuters news agency."
He has not specified, as the two provinces would decide on Sunday but he said that a referendum could be held — although Government sources say this could be at least six months to organize.
The problem raised anti-Government protests in Cochabamba, Beni, and La Paz - where thousands of demonstrators, mostly college students, to the Government Palace Quemado gathered.
BarricadesThe proposed 300 km would one link (190) Street, funded by Brazil, Brazil to Pacific ports in Chile and Peru.
Mr Morales says, the way is for Bolivia's development, but it runs through a rainforest preserve and its construction is bitter against indigenous inhabitants.
Witnesses said that about 500 police surrounded the demonstratorsAbout 1,000 demonstrators were 500 km March to the capital La Paz provide, when they were stopped by police on Sunday in the Yucumo region.
Police forced protesters on buses, but hundreds of native lit fires on the streets, to force the authorities to the airport in Amazon town Rurrenabaque detour.
But residents blocked it the start and runway with burning tires and barricades and police were forced to free the prisoners.
Protesters complain that "extreme violence" was used as the police in the demonstrators got Commons.
You say a child killed was and some protesters remain claims by Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti missing, who claimed that the police measures to prevent clashes with pro-government groups that try to stop the March approached was denied.
But this Declaration of demonstrators re-painted been.
"We do not understand why the Government in this brutal way acted", Rafael Quispe, one of the leading protest, told AFP.
"This is a Government which says that the indigenous population, but it has attacked them."
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