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Bacchus4.0

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Wed Oct 2, 2019, 09:48 AM Oct 2019

Venezuela crisis: UN to investigate alleged human rights violations

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49855018



The UN Human Rights Council will investigate alleged human rights violations in Venezuela, including executions, disappearances and torture.

The forum approved sending a fact-finding mission after a resolution was put forward by Venezuela's neighbours and backed by European countries.

Many of the 6,000 deaths in security raids since January 2018 could have been extrajudicial executions, it said.

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The country is suffering a severe economic and political crisis, and a quarter of its 30 million population need aid, according to the UN. Some four million people have fled in recent years.
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