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  • 2020-09-21 (xsd:date)
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  • On Sept. 15, a United Nations-backed fact-finding mission published a report accusing the Venezuelan government of committing crimes against humanity.The 411-page report, which mainly reviewed cases that occurred between 2014 and 2018, alleged that President Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking officials were involved in systemic human rights abuses of those who opposed his government. The officials either had knowledge of the crimes or gave direct orders and supplied resources for them to occur.The abuses included killings, torture, asphyxiation and sexual violence, including rape. VENEZUELA – National Police officers remain outside the National Guard command post in Cotiza, in northern Caracas, on Jan. 21, 2019 after a brief military uprising and amid opposition calls for mass protests. Operations for People’s Liberation (OLP), the Venezuelan government’s anti-crime initiative launched in 2015, was officially phased out by mid-2017, according to the report. But extrajudicial killings by security forces allegedly continued. The report documented that two security forces – the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigation Corps (CICP) and the Special Action Forces (FAES) of the National Bolivarian Police (PNB) – were responsible for 59 percent of all the killings by security forces that were reviewed. The report said the FAES should be dismantled and the chain of command held accountable.The day following the report’s release, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza dismissed the findings. He said on Twitter that the report was plagued with falsehoods (en)
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