Venezuela in the dock of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

[naaman fletcher]

El Universal: In the last decade, over 8,000 Venezuelans have been killed by the police and military in alleged confrontations or in cases of extrajudicial executions. The Venezuelan Attorney General Office has acknowledged this fact and it has reported on the investigation into more than 2,000 Venezuelan officers for these events. However, less than 4% has been sentenced by a judge and ended up in jail.

These numbers have caused alarm in and outside Venezuela. As evidence, the Venezuelan government will be summoned by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to clarify this situation in a hearing.

"The Court will hear two cases of parapolice groups," said Liliana Ortega, the head of Committee of the Relatives of the Victims of February-March 1989 (Cofavic). She added that the IACHR decided to sue the Venezuelan State in a court based in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the killing of two Venezuelan citizens by police officers. She expects that these cases can "be an opportunity to minimize the action of parapolice groups" in Venezuela.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=98740

[Bacchus39]

1. fascinating, El Universal is carrying the story too

http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/11/15/en_pol_esp_venezuela-in-the-doc_15A4732573.shtml


with the high murder rate in Venezuela, I wonder how many are really the responsibility of security forces.

[dipsydoodle]

2. The US being a member of the OAS

must also comes under the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. As such I would suggest that Venezuala will be at the end of a very long queue.

[Bacchus39]

3. sounds like there will be a hearing on Venezuelan issues

not alot of further details in the article though

[social_critic]

4. I wonder if they'll move on to the golpista general's case?

The International Socialist, a group of over 100 Socialist parties from around the world, is about to issue a serious condemnation of the pro-Chavez golopista general, the one who said he would not abide by a popular vote if Chavez lost. The guy sure went far to suck up to Chavez.