UN investigators accuse Venezuelan security forces of committing crimes against humanity

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Reasonable grounds existed to believe that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his interior and defence ministers ordered or contributed to the crimes documented in the report in order to silence opposition, investigators said

A woman waves a Venezuelan flag in front of security forces during a demonstration in Caracas, on March 10, 2020.Venezuelan security forces and allied groups have committed systematic human rights violations including killings and torture amounting to crimes against humanity, UN investigators said on Wednesday.

“The Mission found reasonable grounds to believe that Venezuelan authorities and security forces have since 2014 planned and executed serious human rights violations, some of which – including arbitrary killings and the systematic use of torture – amount to crimes against humanity,” Panel chair Marta Valinas said in a statement.

The panel found that officers in the military, police and intelligence had committed extrajudicial killings. They included the former head of the National Intelligence Service, General Christopher Figuera, it said.The panel said it had reasonable grounds to believe the intelligence service falsified or planted evidence on victims, and that its agents tortured detainees.

Valero denounced the latest sanctions imposed by the Trump administration which were “causing suffering and death for the Venezuelan people”. The United States, along with dozens of other countries, recognizes opposition politician Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate interim leader.

 

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