2024-09-18 10:59:35
Them “Truth Establishment”created in 2019 by UN Human Rights Councilconsisting of 3 independent experts to investigate “extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, torture, sexual and gender-based violence and other atrocities, injustice and humiliation in Venezuela since 2014 “, presented its annual report in Geneva. It stands out “crime against humanity of persecution”.
The definition of the crime of “persecution” is in the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 1998, within the framework of the experience of the international community, to protect individual rights and freedoms of all people, defined by the UN after the world war the second. It is “the persecution of a group or community with its own identity, based on political, ethnic, national, ethnic, religious and gender reasons.”
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The exceptions defined by experts in the study are part of the denial of the President’s government Nicolas Maduro to authorize the Mission to enter Venezuela, to obtain information from the victims “in situ.” Specifically, they assert that the “standard of proof” is based on achieving “reasonable grounds to believe.” They established their information after collecting “true information that satisfied the objective and reasonable observer that the event occurred as described with a reasonable degree of certainty.”
Having worked “following the principles of independence, impartiality, impartiality, transparency, integrity and the principle of ‘do no harm’, the experts conducted 366 remote or in-person interviews” related to “post-election crisis”. They carried out “4 research missions in 3 countries”, which should be in the region, unknown, without forgetting the “cooperation provided by the authorities” of them.
They reviewed “more than a thousand pieces of evidence, including testimonies, videos, audios, photographs, documents, complaints, reports from human rights groups, news reports, that coming from both open and secret sources,” without access to “court records”. The report did not publish information “provided by sources when identifying security risks” for them, or because “many of their relatives and witnesses prefer not to provide evidence to the Mission for fear of being punished.”
The report revealed that “24 of the 25 deaths were inflicted by gunshot wounds, mostly in the neck or chest before or after, and one from assaults.” He noted “the presence of armed citizens shooting and interacting with security forces or acting alone.” Along the way, he called for the presence of the “Bolivarian National Guard” or “Bolivarian National Police”, who use weapons to suppress the protesters.
Between December 2023 and March 2024, UN experts report “three arrests every week”. “Arrest warrants were issued against 15 other people”, of which 8 “according to the terrorists and leaders of “Vente Venezuela”, an opposition group to the government whose leader is María Corina Machado. At least Another 6 of his “close collaborators … took refuge in the residence of the Argentine Ambassador in Caracas and were placed under the protection of the Brazilian embassy.”
“Of the many conspiracies announced by the Government, the first is Operation “White Pearl”which led to the arrest and prosecution of dozens of people. One of them “is a human rights defender Rocío San Miguelwas arrested in February 2024. Another of those contacted by the government is “former Lieutenant Ronald Ojeda, who was kidnapped from his home in Chile on February 21, 2024 and found with torture marks in some time later. “Chile’s prosecutor’s office determined that Ojeda’s kidnapping gene was a genetic disorder.”
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“Short-term forced losses” They are another of the offensive tactics used by the Venezuelan government since 2019, in particular 29 confirmed cases, while another 27 cases await the Mission to deepen the investigation. The government put 13 other prisoners on trial within the legal period of 48 hours, after denying the relatives who had them in custody. For the Mission, in “the said cases, the authorities play with the limits of the law and use torturers that violate the rights of the detained people.”
Experts received accusations of torture in 7 cases, before the elections July 28, 2024. The incidents “include punches, blows with wooden boards or bats wrapped in foam, and electric shocks, including to the body parts, beatings with plastic bags, immersion in cold water, and sleep deprivation .” by lighting and/or loud music 24 hours a day. The young leader of “Bandera Roja”, John Alvarez, has been under criminal treatment in order to make “party leaders, politicians and journalists in illegal activities.”
Senior officials of the Venezuelan government were mentioned in the report for various interventions in the insurgency, and in the plan to threaten and destroy the opposition forces. Initially, the Electoral Commission announced on July 28, 2024, the victory of Nicolás Maduro, by 51% of the votes, against 44% of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiawho had to run to replace the original candidate, María Corina Machado, because of the prohibition to hold public office for fifteen years, a sentence that was confirmed by the Supreme Court in January 2024.
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Nicolas Maduro’s victory was, however, he said “without the publication of official data distributed by the table and election centers according to the minutes of inspection.”as required by Venezuelan law. Two independent institutions that observed the election process at the invitation of the government questioned the integrity of the process, the Carter Center and the UN panel of experts. Immediately, “dozens of countries asked for the publication of the missing minutes, and the confirmation of their independence. On July 29, 2024, 7 Latin American diplomats were expelled from Venezuela.
“On July 29 and 30, many public protests took place in the Capital Region and in many states of the country in rejection of the results announced by the National Electoral Commission. According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, between July 29 and 30, 2024, 915 protests were carried out throughout the country. Consequently, a wave of terrorism was unleashed by the security forces of the State, which caused “25 deaths and hundreds of people were injured and detained,” which the government baptized “Operation Tun Tun.”
The report also made statements by President Nicolas Maduro, who indicated that Arrests of “terrorists” during the election period reached 2,229is updating the number expected by the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, of 1,062, which on the other hand “provides legal attention to serious violations of human rights at this time.” The President also issued a “strong criticism of the most popular social networks, which he accused of being “materials of hatred and fascism”, ordered the temporary suspension of the “X” network, and urged the removal of the “WhatsApp” application. . Meanwhile, “the cancellation of passports and the dismissal of public officials were reported.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, published in his TV broadcast “With giving”, images of “arrests … as a form of threat, causing fear in the population”. The Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino López, moved his troops “to control the protests” while the flow of soldiers leaving the Army in 2024 will affect some 4,000 soldiers, who have write down (1) “The National Assembly, presided over by Jorge Rodríguez, continues to be instrumental in the approval of new laws that restrict public space and democracy without a true and democratic debate.”
The President of the Presidency of the Supreme Court, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, who was appointed on January 17, and the two vice presidents, are members of the Governmental Association and the appointed positions. They align themselves “with the Executive” to the detriment of the independent and balanced exercise of their constitutional mandates. The president of the National Electoral Commission, Elvis Amoroso, who is the vice-president of the Government and Comptroller General of the Republic, “failed to comply with the basic principles of transparency and integrity” that are necessary for “elections of you believe.” According to the UN Committee of Electoral Experts, Amoroso “failed to comply with the basic measures of transparency and integrity” necessary for “credible elections.”
On September 2, 2024, a “Venezuelan court” with powers in “terrorism” has issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo González Urrutia, a form of victory announced by the opposition, published on the website created for this reason, the electoral records of the polling station with the results, which should not be different from what the government can show. The opposition representatives at the polling stations received their copies of such minutes, proof of the truth, which Nicolas Maduro could not deny. But “on September 7, 2024, González Urrutia was forced to go into exile in Spain because of the persecution to which he was subjected.”
(1) Le Figaro, France, August 13, 2024.
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