He was dead on the spot

Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro has built a state of injustice and torture, dictatorship. To this conclusion, inevitably, come, anyone who reads the report of Amnesty International , the the organization today, in Caracas, the Public has presented. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty's Director for the Americas, described the Situation in the South American country: "The state is trying to force under Nicolás Maduro, through fear and punishment, a heinous strategy to apply social control over those who demand a change. Maduro's government is attacking the poorest of the population, which pretends to defend."

The human rights organization writes of arbitrary arrests, torture and executions by special units. Alone between the 21. and the 25. January 2019, have been killed according to Amnesty International, during demonstrations in Venezuela, 41 persons; all died of gunshot wounds. More than 900 people have been arrested. 23. January, the day Guaidó had begun the opposition Juan office as interim President, came to 770 to arbitrary arrests.

gone without a Trace: On the Altar of his family in a photo reminiscent of Nick Samuel Oropeza, 23. January was seen at an Anti-Maduro Demonstration for the last time alive. Photo: Keystone

In the period between the 21. January and the 17. February Amnesty International has recorded in the three Venezuelan member States of Lara, Yaracuy and Vargas 50 witness statements and 15 cases of state arbitrariness and violence documented. Among them, 6 cases of executions carried out by the special unit of Faes (Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales). The Murdered were young men.

According to Amnesty International, they have criticised it on social networks, the government. After agents of the Faes had shot the critics of the regime, claimed the authorities, they had come in a battle between the forces of law and Order and criminal gangs killed. Especially of such horrors-of-poverty district were affected in Caracas and other major cities.

Six children abused

the murder of The 29-year-old Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez by the death squads of the socialist Maduro regime describes Amnesty International, like this:

"Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez was 29 years of age, to him and to members of the Faes on the 24. January executed in the city of Carora out of court. The day before, an audio message was spread in social media, in the protests against Nicolás Maduro and the office of the mayor of Carora announced. In this audio message, Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez under his nickname was called a name as one of the organizers.

On the 24. January searched 20 heavily armed and mostly masked members of the Faes acted unlawfully, the budget of the family, Ramos Suárez, and miss ten present members of the family, including six children. After they had identified Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez by his nickname, left him in the middle of the room knees. A Faes-made pair of photos and the other beat him.

they locked the other family members in separate rooms of the house, threatened them, and beat them on various parts of the body. Then they forced the family to leave the house, and they brought several vehicles of the national police to a place within two kilometers of distance. A few minutes after that, they shot Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez twice in the chest. He was dead on the spot.

According to witnesses fired Faes members after the execution of Luis Enrique Ramos Suárez in the house of their weapons, a shot fake. The Faes members of the constructed evidence and manipulated the crime scene by, they moved the corpse to a vehicle and him in it, finally, to the morgue. With this approach, you Tiessen against each rule in a forensic investigation."

Systematic violations of human rights in Venezuela: The mother of a violent victim of the Maduro regime. Photo: Amnesty

The Venezuelan lawyer's collective, Foro Penal, according to the Regime has also taken 137 children and young people. Amnesty International investigated 6 of these cases. The Uniformed would act to the detained Minors with corrosive agents, miss, you Sleep all the detained and threatened with death. This despite the fact that it is the Venezuelan law prohibits because of their young age, to arrest them at all.

claim to universal Jurisdiction

Amnesty International writes: "Nevertheless, the court has eight days in prison. Four days they had to spend in a rehabilitation center for minors – a military facility in the the head is shaved bald and songs like "We are Chávez's children to sing" were forced."

in the face of systematic human rights violations by the Maduro's government, Amnesty International is calling for measures by the international community. So the UN should the human rights Council to create an independent body to monitor the situation in Venezuela and report on. The International criminal court in The Hague, the leads are already investigations against the Venezuelan government, should take account of the latest evidence for a possible prosecution against those responsible.

"Finally, the States where the human rights situation in Venezuela, a concern should check, whether you want to apply the principle of universal Jurisdiction, as a result, patients for whom access to justice is denied in their own country, this alternative way is possible," writes Amnesty International. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 20.02.2019, 16:08 PM