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The former heads of State and Government participating in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) They urged this Friday to International Criminal Court (ICC) to act in relation to crimes against humanity consigned in Venezuela by a mission appointed by an agency of the HE-SHE-HIM.
In its report, the independent mission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council described and documented “the systematic practices of aggravated human rights violations, some of which constitute crimes against humanity and as State policies carried out by the Nicolás Maduro regime”says IDEA in a statement.
The former signatory rulers indicate that accompany what is stated in the report on the possibility that other countries initiate “legal actions against the individuals responsible for the violations and crimes indicated, in accordance with its relevant domestic legislation “.
They also support the claim to the ICC to comply “with its duties, vis-à-vis the victims, of justice and timely reparation.”
IDEA highlights that the mission’s report determines the presumed participation in the documented crimes of both President Maduro and his Ministers of the People’s Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace and Defense.
The former rulers point out that after documenting 223 individual cases and examine 2,891 complaints of human rights violations, the mission said it has reasonable grounds to maintain that murders, extrajudicial executions and “other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” such as “enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions”.
To the victims of these events is added the diaspora of more than five million Venezuelans who have been forced to “emigrate under the prevailing repressive context,” underlines IDEA.
Sign the letter Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (Chile), Óscar Arias, Rafael Ángel Calderón, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera Y Laura chinchilla (Costa Rica), Felipe Gonzalez Y Jose Maria Aznar (Spain), Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Mireya Moscoso Y Ernesto Perez Balladares (Panama).
Too Felipe Calderon Y Vicente Fox (Mexico), Alfredo Cristiani (The Savior), Lucio gutierrez Y Osvaldo Hurtado L. (Ecuador), Luis Alberto Lacalle H. Y Julio Maria Sanguinetti (Uruguay), Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Andres Pastrana Y Alvaro Uribe (Colombia), Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia) and Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay).
