Venezuela government accused of grisly crimes against humanity in UN report | State and President Nicolás Maduro were responsible for extrajudicial killings and systemic use of torture

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Venezuela's president and top ministers are responsible for probable crimes against humanity including extrajudicial killings and the systematic use of torture, UN investigators have concluded.

In a scathing, in-depth report published on Wednesday, the panel of experts said that they had found evidence that state actors including President Nicolás Maduro had ordered or contributed to crimes including extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture.

The report appeared likely to fan international and domestic criticism of Maduro's government, which has overseen a country in tatters with runaway inflation, a violent crackdown and an exodus of millions of Venezuelans who have fled to neighboring countries to escape the turmoil since he took power in 2013.Critics in other countries have already accused Maduro's government of crimes against humanity.

The 411-page report for the Human Rights Council represents an extensive look at rights violations in Venezuela and was based on interviews with victims, relatives, witnesses, police, government officials and judges, as well as videos, satellite imagery and social media content.

"For these reasons, the mission has reasonable grounds to believe that they amount to crimes against humanity," she said, noting the alleged arbitrary killings and systematic use of torture, in particular.

Under article 7 of the UN treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, a crime against humanity is defined as an act committed as part of a "Widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population".

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