Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales

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Graduation of some members of the FAES in 2018

The Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales ( FAES ) is a special unit of the Policía Nacional Bolivariana in Venezuela . It was founded in 2016. At this point in time, there were other special units that had a similar range of tasks, such as Fuerza de Operaciones Especiales Los Cazadores or Grupo de Acciones de Comando . It is believed that it is an instrument for Nicolas Maduro to maintain power . The unit is criticized for carrying out extrajudicial shootings .

Extrajudicial shootings

Human rights organizations and politicians criticize both the shooting of citizens on charges of everyday crime and on charges of terrorism . The latter includes who is z. B. participated in the protests in Venezuela since 2014 . As part of the protests after Juan Guaidó was sworn in, around 30 people in the slums of Cotiza and Petare were shot by the FAES sent by Maduro.

UN report from July 2019

Beginning in July 2019 presented Michelle Bachelet , High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations a report with many documents on torture and extrajudicial executions before in Venezuela.

Web links

Commons : Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maduro ordenó a la FANB crear este año Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales. April 26, 2016, Retrieved February 15, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ FAES, de fuerza élite a “grupo de exterminio”. March 4, 2018, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Venezuela: Authorities must stop criminalizing and killing young people living in poverty. In: Amnesty International. February 19, 2019, accessed September 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Maduro Turns to Special Police Force to Crush Dissent. In: New York Times. January 30, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ According to Amnesty, Nicolás Maduro has government critics executed. In: Zeit Online. February 20, 2019, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Fear, punishment, hunger - Nicolás Maduro's formula for oppression. In: Amnesty International. February 20, 2019, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ OHCHR | Oral update on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Human rights UN: Much evidence for extrajudicial executions in Venezuela , Deutsche Welle July 4, 2019
  9. ↑ Venezuela Uno reports on torture and executions in Maduro's prisons , Der Spiegel July 5, 2019
  10. ↑ Venezuela UN report: Maduro can be killed , by Tobias Buyer, Der Tagesspiegel July 4, 2019
  11. ↑ Executions in Venezuela UN calls for the dissolution of the FAES special police , N-tv July 4, 2019