CCPR/C/79/Add.74 page 5 ensure full conformity with the Covenant, in particular the new Code of Criminal Procedure, aimed at the modernization of the Bolivian legal and judicial structures and allowing the investigation and punishment of human rights violations. 27. The Committee urges the State party to put into place the necessary mechanisms to avoid a recurrence of the events surrounding the 1995 state of siege, where the police used excessive violence against the members of teachers' unions. 28. The Committee urges the State party to investigate allegations of human rights violations, in order to bring to justice perpetrators of past and present human rights abuses. It recommends that an independent mechanism be instituted for dealing with complaints of police violence and that the existence of this mechanism be publicized. It further urges the State party to act on the findings of its investigations, to bring to justice the perpetrators and to provide proper compensation to the victims, particularly with respect to continuing occurrences of torture and ill-treatment by the police and security forces. 29. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Law 1008, in order to make it compatible with the State party’s obligations under the Covenant. 30. The Committee urges the State party to comply with article 10, paragraph 2 of the Covenant by separating accused persons from convicted persons in prison, and juvenile offenders from adults. 31. The Committee recommends that the Office of Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court be put into place as soon as possible and that both be given broad jurisdiction and sufficient resources to guarantee the enjoyment of human rights. 32. The Committee urges the State party to take effective measures to abolish the practice of the “criadito”. 33. The Committee recommends that an educational that all segments of the population, in particular security forces and the police, and members of the better acquainted with international standards for observance of human rights and human dignity. programme be devised so members of the army, judiciary and lawyers, are the protection and 34. The Committee recommends that the independence of the judiciary be ensured and a law regulating it be enacted. It further recommends that the nomination of judges should be based on their competence and not their political affiliation. The Committee also recommends that responsibility for the judicial police be transferred from the executive to the judiciary. 35. The Committee recommends that further measures, such as those of the “Justicia Communal”, be taken to ensure that members of indigenous groups are protected against violence within the country and enjoy fully their rights under article 27 of the Covenant, particularly with regard to preservation of their culture, language and religion. The legislation on indigenous communities should be enacted without delay.