Venezuelan rights group: Extrajudicial killings up

[Bacchus39]

Associated Press Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press – Thu May 26, 8:03 pm ET
CARACAS, Venezuela – Unjustified killings by police officers are escalating and occurring across Venezuela, a human rights group charged Thursday.
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Relatives of victims began reporting so-called extrajudicial killings in several of Venezuela's 24 states in 2000, Liliana Ortega, director of the Cofavic rights group, said at a news conference. By 2009, such slayings were reported throughout the country, she said.

Ortega's group is closely examining 81 cases of extrajudicial killings between 2000 and 2009, but rights activists say many more such killings were committed during that period. Provea, another Venezuelan rights group, counted 199 extrajudicial killings between October 2009 and September 2010.

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Police responsible for killings frequently threaten or attack the relatives of victims seeking to intimidate them into not reporting the slayings to government authorities, Ortega said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_police_killings

[naaman fletcher]

1. Becoming more and more like pre-santos colombia. nt

[Bacchus39]

2. I'd say pre-Uribe n/t

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