US EditionVenezuela's National Guard committed crimes against humanity over decade, UN report says
The UN mission found systematic repression by Venezuela’s National Guard, including arbitrary detentions and sexual violence, affecting political opponents and civilians for over 10 years.
- In Geneva on Dec 11, the UN Fact‑Finding Mission on Venezuela reported that Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard committed crimes against humanity, including systematic repression since 2014.
- Under Venezuela's national security doctrine, the GNB expanded into social control under a highly centralised chain of command overseen by President Nicolás Maduro and Bolivarian National Armed Forces leadership, while the Venezuelan judicial system seems unable or unwilling to investigate, entrenching impunity.
- Investigators documented tactics including sexual and gender‑based violence in GNB detention facilities, noting assaults and rape were not isolated, alongside mass detentions, the 2024 post‑election 'knock knock' operation, beatings, torture and excessive force during protest peaks in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2024.
- The findings arrive as tensions rise between Washington and Caracas, with US President Donald Trump raising military intervention risks, while many countries do not recognise the 2024 election and more than seven million Venezuelan migrants have fled since 2013.
- Established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2019, the fact‑finding mission was tasked with assessing violations since 2014, coinciding with 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado’s Oslo press conference on Thursday.
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The United Nations (UN) Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela on Thursday identified the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) as allegedly responsible for human rights violations and crimes against humanity in…
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It is about shots of demonstrators, "voluntary killings" and torture: the Uno is making serious accusations against Venezuela's National Guard.
Venezuela's National Guard committed crimes against humanity over decade, UN report says
Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) committed serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity over more than a decade in targeting political opponents, often with impunity, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission found on Thursday.
The military corps is accused of abuses against members of the opposition to the Nicolás Maduro regime, encouraged by a "schema of abuse" and "structural impunity".
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