And “between January and August 2021 another 362 Venezuelans were murdered in Colombia,” added the prosecutor, who cited reports from the NGO Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES).
With these data, Taab highlighted the “terrifying” figure of approximately 3,000 dead Venezuelans “victims of hatred and xenophobia” promoted, in his opinion, by the Colombian authorities, whom he accused of the “mass murder of Venezuelans in Colombia.”
As he stated, based on the CODHES report, the homicide rate of the Venezuelan population is 2.8 times higher than that of the rest of the population in Colombia.
“No one is imprisoned for that in Colombia, a file or an investigation is not opened, nor are the murderers arrested“, he sentenced.
The UN and Colombian authorities investigate the execution of two Venezuelan minors, 12 and 18 years old, who were shot after being accused of robbing a warehouse in the violent municipality of Tibú, in the northeast of the country.
In videos and photos disseminated on social networks, teenagers are seen with their heads down and their hands tied forward with duct tape, while an off-camera person accuses them of “thieves.”
The bodies of the teens were later found in a rural area, apparently shot and with their hands still tied.
On the body of the youngest, who was lying face down with a red backpack, lay a cardboard with the word “thieves”.
“We believe that the perpetrators are as responsible as the subject who records the video, since he not only apologizes for the crime, but also delivers the children to death,” observed Saab, who sent a communication yesterday to his Colombian counterpart to ask for the facts to be clarified and those responsible arrested.
The Colombian police blame the dissidents of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for both crimes. that departed from the peace agreement signed in 2016 between the ex-guerrilla and the Colombian government.
Tibú, a town on the border with Venezuela, concentrates the largest amount of drug crops in Colombia with more than 19,000 hectares planted with coca leaves, according to the UN.
There, remnant groups of the dissolved Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) and drug traffickers of paramilitary origin dispute the territory to control the coca business.
“They are crimes and crimes against humanity”Saab said, who attributes the migratory wave to the consequences of financial sanctions from the United States to force the departure of President Nicolás Maduro.
According to the United Nations, more than five million Venezuelans have left their country to flee a serious crisis. Colombia has been the main host country, with 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants, more than half undocumented.
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