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- Subject: VENEZUELA: HR violations increase as unrest grows
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- ** Topic: AI: Venezuela Unrest **
- ** Written 3:22 pm Jul 29, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: AI: Venezuela Unrest
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- /* Written 3:21 pm Jul 29, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:ai.general */
- Amnesty International Newsletter
- August 1992
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- VENEZUELA: Violations increase as unrest grows
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- Human rights violations are reportedly on the increase in Venezuela,
- as social unrest continues to grow. In May an AI delegation visited
- Caracas and Valencia to research reported human rights violations by
- the security forces in the wake of the attempted coup of 4 February
- and during anti-government demonstrations in March and April. The
- delegates met human rights monitors, interviewed victims of human
- rights violations and held a meeting with Luis Maria Olaso, the head
- of the Human Rights Directorate of the Attorney General's Office.
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- The delegation collected information about serious human rights
- violations, including evidence of at least seven extrajudicial executions
- of soldiers and civilians suspected of participating in the attempted
- coup, killings by the security forces during anti-govermment demonstrations,
- and the continuing use of torture and ill-treatment by the police against
- crinimal defendants. Those responsible for human rights violations
- in Venezuela have seldom been brought to justice.
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.samerica **
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