To the International Criminal Court
HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO ACT IN VENEZUELA?
HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO ACT IN VENEZUELA?
To the International Criminal Court
To the Security Council of the United Nations
To the Organization of American States
We, the undersigned, worthy citizens, based on the exercise of power that gives us the Universal Declaration of human rights, without distinction of nationality, race, creed, or social status, called by common concerns facing the deep crisis that has affected Venezuela and the lack of strength of the international community with respect to the crimes committed by the Venezuelan Government, whose representative bodies have been limited to making calls to an impossible dialogue between a Government armed and emboldened and a defenceless people, come to exercise the right to protest and to ask a decisive and definitive pronouncement that immediately ends with the dangerous Venezuelan situation, beyond diplomacy and without so much red tape or demagoguery, so that actually benefit the people and not to the regime, based on the following considerations:
First: For more than three years ; a wave of unstoppable violence throughout the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been triggered that has yielded horrific numbers[i], being the more recent, in 2016, of 28.479 murders[ii] and that of the period from January 1st ,2017 to February 12th , 2017, 2.094 people have sucommed, representing 7.7% higher than the same period in 2016. The Government seems unable to protect the population and refuses to acknowledge that we are living in a revealed civil war that, from all military institutions, police personel and prisons ruled by the regime; lethal weapons of high caliber have been issued to irregular groups called "collectives" and common criminals attack the innocent population using the same weapons of war that often include grenades; without any local or international agency to do anything to neutralize and disarm the violent citicens.
Oddly in 2013, it took the UN 8.755 2012 murders in The Democratic Republic of the Congo iii] to act through the creation of a brigade of intervention in the, which is a fraction of the numbers of Venezuelan in 2016, which made it into the second most violent country in the world.
Second: 600 cases of torture in Venezuela, all under a same pattern, 200 of them from 2014 and hundreds of prisoners for political reasons, have been denounced by various NGO's before the International Criminal Court and the situation remains exactly the same with these victims of the barbarism that oppresses freedom of all the citizens of Venezuela[iv].
Venezuela abandoned the American Convention of human rights in 2013 without having complied fully with condemnation--including measures of service-established in 16 sentences from the period of 1995-2012 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [v]. Since then, the citizens we are outside of the legal system and, consequently, deprived of all protection of human rights, which guarantees us the Constitution of Venezuela and the international treaties.
Third: The accrued inflation from January to February 2017 reached 42.5%[vi], along with the currency control[vii] and prices[viii], have been instrumental in the destruction of the productive apparatus with the consequent shortage of vital products such as food and medicines; creating a humanitarian crisis that continues to worsen while the regime of Nicolas Maduro meanwhile refuses to open the humanitarian channel, making impossible any help from international organizations while Venezuelans are dying from hunger. 73% of the population lives in poverty overall, while FAO feeds on made-up data[ix] by the dictatorship in flagrant violation of human rights, when reality is that everyday thousands of Venezuelans delve between trash bins to find any piece of food that supresses their hunger.
Fourth: 2016 ended with a hospital crisis of horrific proportions. Public hospitals were in severe need of 76% of medicines, 81% of surgical medical equipment, and 87% of catheters and probes[x]; which has placed the rate of infant mortality at 19.65%[xi], resulted in 348.285 cases of malaria, which already had been eradicated[xii] and 18.4% chronic malnutrition of children of up to five years[xiii] old. The current number of nonexistence or severe failure in the hospitals is alarmingly high with indicators that are already around 97% of need in this area while the dictatorship, in its efforts to keep the world a false image of Venezuela, by action or omission has persisted for the past four years in refusing to declare the humanitarian crisis and to get any help in this regard, which, along with impairing considerably the living conditions of the population, has helped put it on the threshold of exclusion and the misfortune of the lack of guarantees of their right to receive medical attention, thus violating international humanitarian law.
Fifth: The unending political crisis, ignored by international agencies opposed by the haste with which they have been taken care of others in different countries, along with the extremely high levels of corruption in the administration of the dictatorial regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros on Venezuela, and the very serious allegations and investigations of drug trafficking against high-level officials, both the military and the civil and administrative organs of the State, have resulted in the current lawlessness of a country in which they have already destroyed all the pillars of democracy, specificaly the separation and independence of powers, with events such as the recent rulings that seized the National Assembly the authority to legislate[xiv] ; free and transparent[xv] elections with the refusal of Nicolas Maduro and electoral authorities kneeling to him, allow the recall referendum and the election of Governors and Mayors which were due to be held in 2016[xvi]; and respect for the rule of law, whose non-observance has become clear with the recent protests in which, again. the Venezuelan security forces lash out with guns and toxic gases against an unarmed crowd who are tired of enduring so many aberrations.
Yesterday, on April 10, 2017, thousands of citizens who were peacefully protesting in the streets were again attacked with tear gas released from the SEBIN helicopters, but also the National Guard and the national police fired at them, as well that bullet shots within hospitals as the polyclinic Las Mercedes[xvii] and the Professional Center Las Mercedes Caracas[18th] ; acts of which in addition to setting up war crime; conducted developed systematically by the regime in order to prevent to obtain timely assistance to wounded protesters by the force on peaceful protests. This has meant that for more than one week there is no way that the civilian population can protest peacefully marching to institutions such as the Office of the Ombudsman, because the pickets of the security forces prevent it, facing them, assaulting them, not only with tear gas, but also with red gas, buckshot, and bullets from high caliber weapons, whose use is universally prohibited for such demonstrations and that the regime has been practicing under the silent gaze of the international community. In this way citizens, victims of many violations of their human rights, are also being suffocated by the dictatorial regime to prevent them from exercising their right to peaceful protest to demand the restoration of democracy and respect.
IN CONCLUSION
International organizations are created for citizens and not for their Governments. They are for the citizens of the world and are obliged to listen to our requests and to ensure security and peace, not the group that wields power, but an assembly of people which are based on their individual and universal freedoms and that of no maner fail to be heard. When the Government representing a Member State is apart from the law, citizens powerless before such a disaster, must exercise their sovereign rights through all available mechanisms, as they refuse categorically to save silence in the face of impunity, injustice, and the violation of human rights. This is why we are asking respectfully and forcefully:
1. To the International Criminal Court, without delay and comprehensively, attend each and every one of the proceedings under way against Nicolas Maduro Moros and all those Venezuelan officials accused of committing crimes against humanity, provided for and penalized in the Roman Statute and issued respective statements with independence and impartiality.
2. To the Security Council of the Organization of United Nations, to convene and hold extraordinary sessions that may be necessary to activate mechanisms that allow to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela and neutralize those who are attacking the civil population.
3. That the Organization of American States hold extraordinary sessions of urgent nature as a necessity in order to proceed to the immediate application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, suspending to Venezuela of the bosom of happiness Organization.
[i] Keep in mind that Venezuela has close to 14 years of oficial oppression, which has made prestigiosu ONG’s conformed by investigators of seven national universities to perform serious studies about interpersonal violence. In addition, there is a vast opression of media that forbids that the world can see the hard and difficult reality that is currently being lived by citizens in ths country.
[ii] According to the Venezuelan Obserbatory of Violence in Venezuela; Venezuela, in 2014, reached as the second country with most homicides in the world for a total of 24,980 murders. This entails 82 violent deaths for each one hundred thousand citizens. This number increased in 2015 to 27,875 murders or 91.8 per one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve).
[iii] While the Democratic Republic of Congo represents 13 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens, this same year Venezuela produced 21,692 murders for 73 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve)
[iv] In the document “Observaciones finales sobre el cuarto informe periódico de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela”, it is impozed to Venezuela to double up its efforts to garantee the effective prevention of acts or torture and misstreatments, along with its sanctions to responsable parties. Availabl in: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?sy....
[v] Citizens increasingly cornered. According to the newspaper "El País", this abandonment implies that the Inter-American Court of human rights has lost its jurisdiction over Venezuela and, therefore, Venezuelan victims no longer have the possibility of finding justice which have been in international bodies denied in local courts. Available at: http://internacional.elpais.com/
internacional/2013/09/10/actualidad/1378780644_769381.html.
[vi] José Guerra is Deputy of the National Assembly and hihlited to the diario El Nacional, in its edition of 08/03/2017, that by anualizing the average monthly inflation rates, there is an anual inflation rate of 741% for 2017. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/guerra-inflacion-acumulada-....
[vii] The regime considers that control of change is justified in situations of high instability that threaten the economic security of a nation. Available at: http://www.cencoex.gob.ve/
images/stories/pdfs/Convenios_Cambiarios/correccion_convenio_cambiario01.pdf.
[viii] Venezuela Vice President designated by the way of drug trafficking offences, adopted the modalities of determination, fixing and marking of prices of products, goods and services across the country. Available at: http://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 & name =
DLFE-9705. pdfhttp://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 &
name = DLFE-9705.pdf
[ix] http://www.ovsalud.org/boletines/alimentacion/la-situacion-alimentaria-y....
[x] Data reflected in the "national survey of hospitals 2016, published by NGO's"Medical health"and"Venezuelan Health Observatory". Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/descargas/
publicaciones/salud/Encuesta-Nacional-de-Hospitales-2016.pdf.
[xi] Data of the Dirección de Vigilancia Epidemiológica del Ministerio de Salud referenced in en “La mínima esperanza de vida”, 22/03/2017. Disponible en http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/crisis-humanitaria/minima-esperanza-....
[xii] Data from Dirección General de Salud Ambiental, divulged by Oleta, José F., in a press release of 13/12/2016. Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/publicaciones/documentos-oficiales/escasez-de-med....
[xiii] Marquez, Janeth (Dir.): Line basement of the monitoring Sentinel the situation nutrition in children under 5 years. Humanitarian aid and Civil protection, Caritas France, Confederation Switzerland and Caritas of Venezuela. 01/2017. Available in: http://caritasvenezuela.org.ve/wp/wp-content/uploads/
L%C3%ADnea-Basal-del-Monitoreo-Centinela-de-la-Situaci%C3%B3n-Nutricional-Caritas-de-Vzla.pdf.
[xiv] The regime takes the function of legislation to the National Assembly, only original power that exists in Venezuela. Available at: http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/03/30/58dcfc9a46163f6c328b46
19.html.
[xv] The news caused shock amongst the people of Venezuela when hunger had reached a while ago to Venezuela and mentioned in several international news organizations, including the BBC. Avilable in: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-37723172.
[xvi] Another piece of evidence is that Maduro’s regime doesnt want to undergo election. Available in: http://www.elpolitico.com/consejo-electoral-venezolano-suspende-comicios....
[xvii] El diario El Nacional, in its edition of 10/04/2017, hinghlights that the Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB) threw tear gas bombs to its citizens. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sucesos/gnb-arrojo-bombas-lacrimogen....
[xviii] On this matter, the news was recollected by the newspaper El Universal, in its edition of 10/04/2017. Available in: http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/politica/atacan-con-lacrimogenas-clinicas-las-mercedes_647843.
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HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO ACT IN VENEZUELA?
To the International Criminal Court
To the Security Council of the United Nations
To the Organization of American States
We, the undersigned, worthy citizens, based on the exercise of power that gives us the Universal Declaration of human rights, without distinction of nationality, race, creed, or social status, called by common concerns facing the deep crisis that has affected Venezuela and the lack of strength of the international community with respect to the crimes committed by the Venezuelan Government, whose representative bodies have been limited to making calls to an impossible dialogue between a Government armed and emboldened and a defenceless people, come to exercise the right to protest and to ask a decisive and definitive pronouncement that immediately ends with the dangerous Venezuelan situation, beyond diplomacy and without so much red tape or demagoguery, so that actually benefit the people and not to the regime, based on the following considerations:
First: For more than three years ; a wave of unstoppable violence throughout the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been triggered that has yielded horrific numbers[i], being the more recent, in 2016, of 28.479 murders[ii] and that of the period from January 1st ,2017 to February 12th , 2017, 2.094 people have sucommed, representing 7.7% higher than the same period in 2016. The Government seems unable to protect the population and refuses to acknowledge that we are living in a revealed civil war that, from all military institutions, police personel and prisons ruled by the regime; lethal weapons of high caliber have been issued to irregular groups called "collectives" and common criminals attack the innocent population using the same weapons of war that often include grenades; without any local or international agency to do anything to neutralize and disarm the violent citicens.
Oddly in 2013, it took the UN 8.755 2012 murders in The Democratic Republic of the Congo iii] to act through the creation of a brigade of intervention in the, which is a fraction of the numbers of Venezuelan in 2016, which made it into the second most violent country in the world.
Second: 600 cases of torture in Venezuela, all under a same pattern, 200 of them from 2014 and hundreds of prisoners for political reasons, have been denounced by various NGO's before the International Criminal Court and the situation remains exactly the same with these victims of the barbarism that oppresses freedom of all the citizens of Venezuela[iv].
Venezuela abandoned the American Convention of human rights in 2013 without having complied fully with condemnation--including measures of service-established in 16 sentences from the period of 1995-2012 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [v]. Since then, the citizens we are outside of the legal system and, consequently, deprived of all protection of human rights, which guarantees us the Constitution of Venezuela and the international treaties.
Third: The accrued inflation from January to February 2017 reached 42.5%[vi], along with the currency control[vii] and prices[viii], have been instrumental in the destruction of the productive apparatus with the consequent shortage of vital products such as food and medicines; creating a humanitarian crisis that continues to worsen while the regime of Nicolas Maduro meanwhile refuses to open the humanitarian channel, making impossible any help from international organizations while Venezuelans are dying from hunger. 73% of the population lives in poverty overall, while FAO feeds on made-up data[ix] by the dictatorship in flagrant violation of human rights, when reality is that everyday thousands of Venezuelans delve between trash bins to find any piece of food that supresses their hunger.
Fourth: 2016 ended with a hospital crisis of horrific proportions. Public hospitals were in severe need of 76% of medicines, 81% of surgical medical equipment, and 87% of catheters and probes[x]; which has placed the rate of infant mortality at 19.65%[xi], resulted in 348.285 cases of malaria, which already had been eradicated[xii] and 18.4% chronic malnutrition of children of up to five years[xiii] old. The current number of nonexistence or severe failure in the hospitals is alarmingly high with indicators that are already around 97% of need in this area while the dictatorship, in its efforts to keep the world a false image of Venezuela, by action or omission has persisted for the past four years in refusing to declare the humanitarian crisis and to get any help in this regard, which, along with impairing considerably the living conditions of the population, has helped put it on the threshold of exclusion and the misfortune of the lack of guarantees of their right to receive medical attention, thus violating international humanitarian law.
Fifth: The unending political crisis, ignored by international agencies opposed by the haste with which they have been taken care of others in different countries, along with the extremely high levels of corruption in the administration of the dictatorial regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros on Venezuela, and the very serious allegations and investigations of drug trafficking against high-level officials, both the military and the civil and administrative organs of the State, have resulted in the current lawlessness of a country in which they have already destroyed all the pillars of democracy, specificaly the separation and independence of powers, with events such as the recent rulings that seized the National Assembly the authority to legislate[xiv] ; free and transparent[xv] elections with the refusal of Nicolas Maduro and electoral authorities kneeling to him, allow the recall referendum and the election of Governors and Mayors which were due to be held in 2016[xvi]; and respect for the rule of law, whose non-observance has become clear with the recent protests in which, again. the Venezuelan security forces lash out with guns and toxic gases against an unarmed crowd who are tired of enduring so many aberrations.
Yesterday, on April 10, 2017, thousands of citizens who were peacefully protesting in the streets were again attacked with tear gas released from the SEBIN helicopters, but also the National Guard and the national police fired at them, as well that bullet shots within hospitals as the polyclinic Las Mercedes[xvii] and the Professional Center Las Mercedes Caracas[18th] ; acts of which in addition to setting up war crime; conducted developed systematically by the regime in order to prevent to obtain timely assistance to wounded protesters by the force on peaceful protests. This has meant that for more than one week there is no way that the civilian population can protest peacefully marching to institutions such as the Office of the Ombudsman, because the pickets of the security forces prevent it, facing them, assaulting them, not only with tear gas, but also with red gas, buckshot, and bullets from high caliber weapons, whose use is universally prohibited for such demonstrations and that the regime has been practicing under the silent gaze of the international community. In this way citizens, victims of many violations of their human rights, are also being suffocated by the dictatorial regime to prevent them from exercising their right to peaceful protest to demand the restoration of democracy and respect.
IN CONCLUSION
International organizations are created for citizens and not for their Governments. They are for the citizens of the world and are obliged to listen to our requests and to ensure security and peace, not the group that wields power, but an assembly of people which are based on their individual and universal freedoms and that of no maner fail to be heard. When the Government representing a Member State is apart from the law, citizens powerless before such a disaster, must exercise their sovereign rights through all available mechanisms, as they refuse categorically to save silence in the face of impunity, injustice, and the violation of human rights. This is why we are asking respectfully and forcefully:
1. To the International Criminal Court, without delay and comprehensively, attend each and every one of the proceedings under way against Nicolas Maduro Moros and all those Venezuelan officials accused of committing crimes against humanity, provided for and penalized in the Roman Statute and issued respective statements with independence and impartiality.
2. To the Security Council of the Organization of United Nations, to convene and hold extraordinary sessions that may be necessary to activate mechanisms that allow to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela and neutralize those who are attacking the civil population.
3. That the Organization of American States hold extraordinary sessions of urgent nature as a necessity in order to proceed to the immediate application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, suspending to Venezuela of the bosom of happiness Organization.
[i] Keep in mind that Venezuela has close to 14 years of oficial oppression, which has made prestigiosu ONG’s conformed by investigators of seven national universities to perform serious studies about interpersonal violence. In addition, there is a vast opression of media that forbids that the world can see the hard and difficult reality that is currently being lived by citizens in ths country.
[ii] According to the Venezuelan Obserbatory of Violence in Venezuela; Venezuela, in 2014, reached as the second country with most homicides in the world for a total of 24,980 murders. This entails 82 violent deaths for each one hundred thousand citizens. This number increased in 2015 to 27,875 murders or 91.8 per one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve).
[iii] While the Democratic Republic of Congo represents 13 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens, this same year Venezuela produced 21,692 murders for 73 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve)
[iv] In the document “Observaciones finales sobre el cuarto informe periódico de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela”, it is impozed to Venezuela to double up its efforts to garantee the effective prevention of acts or torture and misstreatments, along with its sanctions to responsable parties. Availabl in: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?sy....
[v] Citizens increasingly cornered. According to the newspaper "El País", this abandonment implies that the Inter-American Court of human rights has lost its jurisdiction over Venezuela and, therefore, Venezuelan victims no longer have the possibility of finding justice which have been in international bodies denied in local courts. Available at: http://internacional.elpais.com/
internacional/2013/09/10/actualidad/1378780644_769381.html.
[vi] José Guerra is Deputy of the National Assembly and hihlited to the diario El Nacional, in its edition of 08/03/2017, that by anualizing the average monthly inflation rates, there is an anual inflation rate of 741% for 2017. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/guerra-inflacion-acumulada-....
[vii] The regime considers that control of change is justified in situations of high instability that threaten the economic security of a nation. Available at: http://www.cencoex.gob.ve/
images/stories/pdfs/Convenios_Cambiarios/correccion_convenio_cambiario01.pdf.
[viii] Venezuela Vice President designated by the way of drug trafficking offences, adopted the modalities of determination, fixing and marking of prices of products, goods and services across the country. Available at: http://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 & name =
DLFE-9705. pdfhttp://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 &
name = DLFE-9705.pdf
[ix] http://www.ovsalud.org/boletines/alimentacion/la-situacion-alimentaria-y....
[x] Data reflected in the "national survey of hospitals 2016, published by NGO's"Medical health"and"Venezuelan Health Observatory". Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/descargas/
publicaciones/salud/Encuesta-Nacional-de-Hospitales-2016.pdf.
[xi] Data of the Dirección de Vigilancia Epidemiológica del Ministerio de Salud referenced in en “La mínima esperanza de vida”, 22/03/2017. Disponible en http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/crisis-humanitaria/minima-esperanza-....
[xii] Data from Dirección General de Salud Ambiental, divulged by Oleta, José F., in a press release of 13/12/2016. Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/publicaciones/documentos-oficiales/escasez-de-med....
[xiii] Marquez, Janeth (Dir.): Line basement of the monitoring Sentinel the situation nutrition in children under 5 years. Humanitarian aid and Civil protection, Caritas France, Confederation Switzerland and Caritas of Venezuela. 01/2017. Available in: http://caritasvenezuela.org.ve/wp/wp-content/uploads/
L%C3%ADnea-Basal-del-Monitoreo-Centinela-de-la-Situaci%C3%B3n-Nutricional-Caritas-de-Vzla.pdf.
[xiv] The regime takes the function of legislation to the National Assembly, only original power that exists in Venezuela. Available at: http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/03/30/58dcfc9a46163f6c328b46
19.html.
[xv] The news caused shock amongst the people of Venezuela when hunger had reached a while ago to Venezuela and mentioned in several international news organizations, including the BBC. Avilable in: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-37723172.
[xvi] Another piece of evidence is that Maduro’s regime doesnt want to undergo election. Available in: http://www.elpolitico.com/consejo-electoral-venezolano-suspende-comicios....
[xvii] El diario El Nacional, in its edition of 10/04/2017, hinghlights that the Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB) threw tear gas bombs to its citizens. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sucesos/gnb-arrojo-bombas-lacrimogen....
[xviii] On this matter, the news was recollected by the newspaper El Universal, in its edition of 10/04/2017. Available in: http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/politica/atacan-con-lacrimogenas-clinicas-las-mercedes_647843
HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO ACT IN VENEZUELA?
To the International Criminal Court
To the Security Council of the United Nations
To the Organization of American States
We, the undersigned, worthy citizens, based on the exercise of power that gives us the Universal Declaration of human rights, without distinction of nationality, race, creed, or social status, called by common concerns facing the deep crisis that has affected Venezuela and the lack of strength of the international community with respect to the crimes committed by the Venezuelan Government, whose representative bodies have been limited to making calls to an impossible dialogue between a Government armed and emboldened and a defenceless people, come to exercise the right to protest and to ask a decisive and definitive pronouncement that immediately ends with the dangerous Venezuelan situation, beyond diplomacy and without so much red tape or demagoguery, so that actually benefit the people and not to the regime, based on the following considerations:
First: For more than three years ; a wave of unstoppable violence throughout the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been triggered that has yielded horrific numbers[i], being the more recent, in 2016, of 28.479 murders[ii] and that of the period from January 1st ,2017 to February 12th , 2017, 2.094 people have sucommed, representing 7.7% higher than the same period in 2016. The Government seems unable to protect the population and refuses to acknowledge that we are living in a revealed civil war that, from all military institutions, police personel and prisons ruled by the regime; lethal weapons of high caliber have been issued to irregular groups called "collectives" and common criminals attack the innocent population using the same weapons of war that often include grenades; without any local or international agency to do anything to neutralize and disarm the violent citicens.
Oddly in 2013, it took the UN 8.755 2012 murders in The Democratic Republic of the Congo iii] to act through the creation of a brigade of intervention in the, which is a fraction of the numbers of Venezuelan in 2016, which made it into the second most violent country in the world.
Second: 600 cases of torture in Venezuela, all under a same pattern, 200 of them from 2014 and hundreds of prisoners for political reasons, have been denounced by various NGO's before the International Criminal Court and the situation remains exactly the same with these victims of the barbarism that oppresses freedom of all the citizens of Venezuela[iv].
Venezuela abandoned the American Convention of human rights in 2013 without having complied fully with condemnation--including measures of service-established in 16 sentences from the period of 1995-2012 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [v]. Since then, the citizens we are outside of the legal system and, consequently, deprived of all protection of human rights, which guarantees us the Constitution of Venezuela and the international treaties.
Third: The accrued inflation from January to February 2017 reached 42.5%[vi], along with the currency control[vii] and prices[viii], have been instrumental in the destruction of the productive apparatus with the consequent shortage of vital products such as food and medicines; creating a humanitarian crisis that continues to worsen while the regime of Nicolas Maduro meanwhile refuses to open the humanitarian channel, making impossible any help from international organizations while Venezuelans are dying from hunger. 73% of the population lives in poverty overall, while FAO feeds on made-up data[ix] by the dictatorship in flagrant violation of human rights, when reality is that everyday thousands of Venezuelans delve between trash bins to find any piece of food that supresses their hunger.
Fourth: 2016 ended with a hospital crisis of horrific proportions. Public hospitals were in severe need of 76% of medicines, 81% of surgical medical equipment, and 87% of catheters and probes[x]; which has placed the rate of infant mortality at 19.65%[xi], resulted in 348.285 cases of malaria, which already had been eradicated[xii] and 18.4% chronic malnutrition of children of up to five years[xiii] old. The current number of nonexistence or severe failure in the hospitals is alarmingly high with indicators that are already around 97% of need in this area while the dictatorship, in its efforts to keep the world a false image of Venezuela, by action or omission has persisted for the past four years in refusing to declare the humanitarian crisis and to get any help in this regard, which, along with impairing considerably the living conditions of the population, has helped put it on the threshold of exclusion and the misfortune of the lack of guarantees of their right to receive medical attention, thus violating international humanitarian law.
Fifth: The unending political crisis, ignored by international agencies opposed by the haste with which they have been taken care of others in different countries, along with the extremely high levels of corruption in the administration of the dictatorial regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros on Venezuela, and the very serious allegations and investigations of drug trafficking against high-level officials, both the military and the civil and administrative organs of the State, have resulted in the current lawlessness of a country in which they have already destroyed all the pillars of democracy, specificaly the separation and independence of powers, with events such as the recent rulings that seized the National Assembly the authority to legislate[xiv] ; free and transparent[xv] elections with the refusal of Nicolas Maduro and electoral authorities kneeling to him, allow the recall referendum and the election of Governors and Mayors which were due to be held in 2016[xvi]; and respect for the rule of law, whose non-observance has become clear with the recent protests in which, again. the Venezuelan security forces lash out with guns and toxic gases against an unarmed crowd who are tired of enduring so many aberrations.
Yesterday, on April 10, 2017, thousands of citizens who were peacefully protesting in the streets were again attacked with tear gas released from the SEBIN helicopters, but also the National Guard and the national police fired at them, as well that bullet shots within hospitals as the polyclinic Las Mercedes[xvii] and the Professional Center Las Mercedes Caracas[18th] ; acts of which in addition to setting up war crime; conducted developed systematically by the regime in order to prevent to obtain timely assistance to wounded protesters by the force on peaceful protests. This has meant that for more than one week there is no way that the civilian population can protest peacefully marching to institutions such as the Office of the Ombudsman, because the pickets of the security forces prevent it, facing them, assaulting them, not only with tear gas, but also with red gas, buckshot, and bullets from high caliber weapons, whose use is universally prohibited for such demonstrations and that the regime has been practicing under the silent gaze of the international community. In this way citizens, victims of many violations of their human rights, are also being suffocated by the dictatorial regime to prevent them from exercising their right to peaceful protest to demand the restoration of democracy and respect.
IN CONCLUSION
International organizations are created for citizens and not for their Governments. They are for the citizens of the world and are obliged to listen to our requests and to ensure security and peace, not the group that wields power, but an assembly of people which are based on their individual and universal freedoms and that of no maner fail to be heard. When the Government representing a Member State is apart from the law, citizens powerless before such a disaster, must exercise their sovereign rights through all available mechanisms, as they refuse categorically to save silence in the face of impunity, injustice, and the violation of human rights. This is why we are asking respectfully and forcefully:
1. To the International Criminal Court, without delay and comprehensively, attend each and every one of the proceedings under way against Nicolas Maduro Moros and all those Venezuelan officials accused of committing crimes against humanity, provided for and penalized in the Roman Statute and issued respective statements with independence and impartiality.
2. To the Security Council of the Organization of United Nations, to convene and hold extraordinary sessions that may be necessary to activate mechanisms that allow to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela and neutralize those who are attacking the civil population.
3. That the Organization of American States hold extraordinary sessions of urgent nature as a necessity in order to proceed to the immediate application of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, suspending to Venezuela of the bosom of happiness Organization.
[i] Keep in mind that Venezuela has close to 14 years of oficial oppression, which has made prestigiosu ONG’s conformed by investigators of seven national universities to perform serious studies about interpersonal violence. In addition, there is a vast opression of media that forbids that the world can see the hard and difficult reality that is currently being lived by citizens in ths country.
[ii] According to the Venezuelan Obserbatory of Violence in Venezuela; Venezuela, in 2014, reached as the second country with most homicides in the world for a total of 24,980 murders. This entails 82 violent deaths for each one hundred thousand citizens. This number increased in 2015 to 27,875 murders or 91.8 per one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve).
[iii] While the Democratic Republic of Congo represents 13 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens, this same year Venezuela produced 21,692 murders for 73 homicides for each one hundred thousand citizens (observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve)
[iv] In the document “Observaciones finales sobre el cuarto informe periódico de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela”, it is impozed to Venezuela to double up its efforts to garantee the effective prevention of acts or torture and misstreatments, along with its sanctions to responsable parties. Availabl in: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?sy....
[v] Citizens increasingly cornered. According to the newspaper "El País", this abandonment implies that the Inter-American Court of human rights has lost its jurisdiction over Venezuela and, therefore, Venezuelan victims no longer have the possibility of finding justice which have been in international bodies denied in local courts. Available at: http://internacional.elpais.com/
internacional/2013/09/10/actualidad/1378780644_769381.html.
[vi] José Guerra is Deputy of the National Assembly and hihlited to the diario El Nacional, in its edition of 08/03/2017, that by anualizing the average monthly inflation rates, there is an anual inflation rate of 741% for 2017. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/guerra-inflacion-acumulada-....
[vii] The regime considers that control of change is justified in situations of high instability that threaten the economic security of a nation. Available at: http://www.cencoex.gob.ve/
images/stories/pdfs/Convenios_Cambiarios/correccion_convenio_cambiario01.pdf.
[viii] Venezuela Vice President designated by the way of drug trafficking offences, adopted the modalities of determination, fixing and marking of prices of products, goods and services across the country. Available at: http://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 & name =
DLFE-9705. pdfhttp://www.mp.gob.ve/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=206019 & folderId = 9883029 &
name = DLFE-9705.pdf
[ix] http://www.ovsalud.org/boletines/alimentacion/la-situacion-alimentaria-y....
[x] Data reflected in the "national survey of hospitals 2016, published by NGO's"Medical health"and"Venezuelan Health Observatory". Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/descargas/
publicaciones/salud/Encuesta-Nacional-de-Hospitales-2016.pdf.
[xi] Data of the Dirección de Vigilancia Epidemiológica del Ministerio de Salud referenced in en “La mínima esperanza de vida”, 22/03/2017. Disponible en http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/crisis-humanitaria/minima-esperanza-....
[xii] Data from Dirección General de Salud Ambiental, divulged by Oleta, José F., in a press release of 13/12/2016. Available in: http://www.ovsalud.org/publicaciones/documentos-oficiales/escasez-de-med....
[xiii] Marquez, Janeth (Dir.): Line basement of the monitoring Sentinel the situation nutrition in children under 5 years. Humanitarian aid and Civil protection, Caritas France, Confederation Switzerland and Caritas of Venezuela. 01/2017. Available in: http://caritasvenezuela.org.ve/wp/wp-content/uploads/
L%C3%ADnea-Basal-del-Monitoreo-Centinela-de-la-Situaci%C3%B3n-Nutricional-Caritas-de-Vzla.pdf.
[xiv] The regime takes the function of legislation to the National Assembly, only original power that exists in Venezuela. Available at: http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/03/30/58dcfc9a46163f6c328b46
19.html.
[xv] The news caused shock amongst the people of Venezuela when hunger had reached a while ago to Venezuela and mentioned in several international news organizations, including the BBC. Avilable in: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-37723172.
[xvi] Another piece of evidence is that Maduro’s regime doesnt want to undergo election. Available in: http://www.elpolitico.com/consejo-electoral-venezolano-suspende-comicios....
[xvii] El diario El Nacional, in its edition of 10/04/2017, hinghlights that the Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB) threw tear gas bombs to its citizens. Available in: http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sucesos/gnb-arrojo-bombas-lacrimogen....
[xviii] On this matter, the news was recollected by the newspaper El Universal, in its edition of 10/04/2017. Available in: http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/politica/atacan-con-lacrimogenas-clinicas-las-mercedes_647843
