By By JohnThomas Didymus Jun 7, 2013 in World La Paz - Police in Bolivia say that a 17-year-old peasant, Santos Ramos, suspected of rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman Leandra Arias Janco, was buried alive in the grave of his alleged victim on Sunday. According to The incident occurred on Sunday in a Quechua community in Colquechaca, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants, about 207 miles southeast of La Paz, Bolivia's capital, according to A reporter from a local radio who witnessed the incident told Barrios told reporters that the mob of about 100 villagers prevented the police and prosecutors from reaching the rural community by blocking the road. Bolivia's President Evo Morales may have supported the alternate rough approach to justice when he approved a law that gave legal recognition to "indigenous justice." But As evidence of the risk inherent to "indigenous justice," in May last year, a police officer was lynched to death in the city of El Alto after he was mistaken for a thief, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. According to AP , Bolivian officials said Thursday that a village mob in Bolivia's southern highlands buried the man alive in the grave of the woman he was suspected to have raped and murdered.According to The Huffington Post , the chief prosecutor in the Potosi province Jose Luis Barrios, told reporters that the villagers threw Santos Ramos, 17, into the grave of 35-year-old Leandra Aria Janco, after police identified identified him as a suspect in the rape and murder of the woman.The incident occurred on Sunday in a Quechua community in Colquechaca, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants, about 207 miles southeast of La Paz, Bolivia's capital, according to AP A reporter from a local radio who witnessed the incident told AP that the teenager was tied up and thrown into the open grave, the coffin of his alleged victim placed on top of him and the grave filled with earth.Barrios told reporters that the mob of about 100 villagers prevented the police and prosecutors from reaching the rural community by blocking the road. The Huffington Post reports that lynchings are common in poor rural areas of Bolivia where police, law enforcement and judicial authorities are scarce.Bolivia's President Evo Morales may have supported the alternate rough approach to justice when he approved a law that gave legal recognition to "indigenous justice." But analysts point out that, as it happened in Ramos's case, "Community justice can sometime resemble legalized lynching, featuring stoning, strangulation or burning with petrol. The police do not keep separate records of these acts."As evidence of the risk inherent to "indigenous justice," in May last year, a police officer was lynched to death in the city of El Alto after he was mistaken for a thief, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. AP reports that in a separate incident on Wednesday, members of an indigenous community Tres Cruces, stoned a suspected thief to death and burned his accomplice alive. According to police sources, the men were suspected of robbing a car and killing the driver. More about santos ramos, Bolivia, Leandra Aria Janco, Colquechaca More news from santos ramos Bolivia Leandra Aria Janco Colquechaca