• Venezuela.The evidence delivered in The Hague confirms that Óscar Pérez and his teammates were executed even though they did not fire a single shot
  • Chronicle: Grace shots to the seven rebels in Maduro's Venezuela

Next January will be two years of the El Junquito massacre in which police officer Oscar Pérez and six of his companions (five men and one pregnant woman) were executed by the security forces of Nicolás Maduro after having rebelled against the regime.

His brother Armando, a refugee in Madrid, where he has requested asylum, reveals that "the whole family is being persecuted" and hopes that the world will open its eyes to extrajudicial executions that are becoming a common practice in Venezuela, as Alta reported Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. Behind him, on a screen, the images of brutality follow one another. His brother riddled after giving up . The photographs are part of the more than 400 documentary and graphic evidence that former deputy and former political prisoner Wilmer Azuaje and the president of the Human Rights subcommittee of the National Assembly, Franco Casella , have submitted to the International Court of The Hague.

The house where Óscar Pérez.EM was killed

"These men and women, trained to fire their weapons, decided not to fear it for their lives. It is the greatest sign of nonviolence. Having surrendered they were riddled, " says Casella. The evidence at hand demonstrates that neither Pérez nor any of the other members of the group executed a single shot at the military that besieged them on January 15, 2018. Then, families were prevented from seeing the bodies. The bodies appear today photographed with dozens of grace shots, in the head, in the neck, in the arms.

Among the photographs are also those of the house of El Junquito where the massacre occurred. Although to say house is to say too much. The house appears as the scene of a hurricane, rickety, shattered, reflecting the violence with which the military killed the rebels. The house, Casella reveals, " was demolished days later by heavy machinery ." There is more. The Maduro regime has tried to justify the murders on the grounds that Perez and his group killed two paramilitaries in Operation Gideon (destroyer in Hebrew), as he was baptized by the authorities. Casella and Azuaje have revealed in Madrid that they have evidence, which they have not yet made public, that two men, members of a collective (group related to the revolution) were killed by Maduro's security forces.

All the evidence submitted by Casella and Azuaje were carried out by the Corps of Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC), to which Pérez also belonged. One of them reveals that there was no gunpowder in the bodies of those killed, so it is impossible for them to fire their rifles.

"These people try to end what the name of Oscar Pérez means. The struggle, the roots to the values ​​and principles that defined him as a person," says Armando, his brother. "We want to make noise. A month after Oscar was murdered, one of my uncles , my mother's brother, was murdered . He had stated that he felt threatened and harassed and strangely appeared dead. His malevolent system has left me without my family," he says. , before explaining how far the persecution goes to theirs. "My family was in Mexico and managed to escape to the US. A week later a person located who had assisted my family in Mexico and asked for the location of where they were in exchange for giving them a house, car and solving all their papers."

Pérez's name first came to light in June 2017. Then, this policeman took a helicopter and threw several acoustic grenades over the Ministry of Interior and the Supreme Court of Venezuela, calling for the rebellion against Maduro. A sign that read "350 Freedom" hung on the plane he was piloting, referring to the constitutional article that justifies disobedience against a government that violates fundamental rights. He was accused of terrorism and disappeared for months before the siege of El Junquito, in which he and six other comrades in arms were killed.

" It is necessary to show the horror to understand it . If the world does not look we are doomed to die all," asks Azuaje, with tears in his eyes. He himself was illegally imprisoned for more than 400 days at the Helicoid headquarters. "The dictatorship continues to kill. It's about acting against a criminal organization run by terrorist groups. We can never do it alone," he says.

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