Caracas, 26 Feb. ABN .- "We have to observe what were the measures of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) when the events of the Caracazo", said prosecutor general of the Republic, Luisa Ortega Diaz, referring to the report recently issued by this international body that again attacks the revolutionary government of Venezuela.
"He was diligent enough to produce a report like this?" Asked the prosecutor general, to display the document that was next to his desk.
Beyond what he has done or failed to make the Pan-American human rights bureaucracy, now the Public Ministry (MP) of Venezuela is willing "to get to the bottom" of investigations into the events of 27, 28 February early March 1989, known as El Caracazo.
At least no doubt that the Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz, head of the investigation of this crime against humanity, reopened by the Venezuelan government.
"Next week we have the final act of the complaints by the Caracazo," the official In an interview with the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN).
The Attorney General's Office in 2009 charged the retired general of the National Guard (GN) Freddy Cardona Maya, former Defense Minister Italo del Valle Alliegro, the former head of Strategic Command Manuel Heinz Azpúrua Caracas and former director of the Metropolitan Police (PM) retired general José Rafael León GN Orsoni for their alleged responsibility in the events between 27 and 28 February and early March 1989.
"They all attended the prosecution. All were subjected to criminal prosecution, "added Ortega Díaz.
Charges refer to the alleged commission of the crimes of Murder as an accomplice necessary and breach of international conventions and agreements duly signed by the Republic.
As the process of identifying victims of the Caracazo buried in the grave of La Peste, in the Southern General Cemetery, Ortega Díaz announced that soon could give first and last name 15 people.
"They crowded relatives of 18 deceased and we have the pre-mortem records of the same number of victims. There are 15 of these families are going to send the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) to extract a DNA sample and thus compared with that of the bones, which were already made in the process of individuation "prune.
Last September, in compliance with the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to continue to research, locate, exhume and identify the bodies, the public prosecutor, representing the State had dealt with the process .
a first step exhumed the bodies, now skeletons, presumably from the days of the Caracazo buried in niches of the Plague, which a team of anthropologists and forensic experts singled out (to determine sex, height, age, height, race ), extracted a DNA sample, and later to compare with pre-mortem information (a form dental x-ray photograph of the missing face on that date, or any data that has suffered a fracture or bone disease), and thus achieve its identification.
In La Peste were exhumed in three days, 125 bodies. In the study of individualization 47 corresponded to the time of the Caracazo.
"It's been uphill work for the conditions in which the bodies were found. There we discovered that the treatment was given to those bodies did not import anything. Put them in mass and niche without any treatment, mixed with other dead, "said the prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz.
The process has been in the process of individualization because few families of the victims have given the Public Prosecutor's enough information to compare with the scientific findings.
This, said Ortega Díaz, is due to many reasons, including because they have spent many years and some relatives of victims have died or were too young then to remember and have lost the information of their loved ones.
"We know that in 1991, when it became the first exhumation, which took the Committee Relatives of the Victims of the Caracazo (Cofavic) worked with pre-mortem information, and witness statements, ensuring that the NGO was given all the material necessary to identify persons who were allegedly buried in mass grave Plague 'he said.
Similarly, reported: 'We have asked Cofavic to send us this information, and it has not done, "
" The obligation is to assist the Venezuelan justice, "said the attorney general.
therefore urged: "I want Cofavic voluntarily enter the information to prosecutors and, thus, research help, contribute, especially them, are human rights NGOs, should help clarify this case. "
The Committee of Relatives of Victims of the Caracazo, represented by Aura Liscano, has publicly opposed the actions of the Venezuelan state to enforce the ruling of the Commission without further arguments.
In the first act of exhumation of the corpse, a group of this organization, composed of relatives of victims of the Caracazo, came to La Peste to claim the procedure of identification of individuals charged by the prosecution and considered it "illegal ".
team designated for this work is led by academic experts in anthropology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and forensic technicians Main Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC).
40 years of human rights violations
Similarly, Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said the countless human rights violations during the forty-year rule of the Fourth Republic.
"People were afraid to denounce them," said Ortega Díaz, while exemplified the case of El Caracazo.
"Many relatives of those killed in those days did not attend morgue or police for fear of being repressed. It made them doubly victimized, "said the official.
Therefore, today said the state security organs "have a different conception."
The old doctrine of Homeland Security issued by the U.S. government, which made the people and their social organizations enemies of the state, no longer exists. The Bolivarian Revolution is one of their main bases the unity of the people and the Bolivarian Armed Force.
The Commission against the State
Injured and relatives of victims of the Caracazo, grouped in Cofavic, attended a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) para denunciar al Estado venezolano por las violaciones a los derechos humanos en los sucesos de febrero y marzo de 1989.
La CIDH demandó ante la Corte al Estado venezolano por este caso pero el “desde que se demanda, que fue en 1991, hasta 1999, estamos hablando de 8 años, la Corte no había decidido nada. El Estado venezolano y el gobierno de Hugo Chávez admitieron la demanda”, sostuvo la fiscal general Luisa Ortega Díaz.
“La Corte Interamericana condena al Estado venezolano a pagar solamente a los 37 fallecidos y los 3 lesionados, los que acudieron a ésta, pero el Estado fue más allá y está indemnizando al other victims of the Caracazo "he said. Figures
The Caracazo
The number of people killed in the events of 27, 28 February and early March has always been a mystery, but the prosecution has its numbers.
"We have 336 investigations opened by the Caracazo, of which 331 are for murder," said Ortega Díaz.
However, the prosecutor warned that 331 331 cases are not exactly dead, "there may be some who will soon have 2 or 3 murders."
As rumors of mass graves of the Caracazo elsewhere, said that there is no proof, but the same is under investigation.
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