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Venezuela Crisis: UN says Security Forces Killed Hundreds

22/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Venezuela Crisis: UN says Security Forces Killed Hundreds

UN says the rule of law in Venezuela has virtually disappeared.

UN says the rule of law in Venezuela has virtually disappeared, with the security forces carrying out extrajudicial killings with impunity.

The United Nations says the Venezuelan police and military are carrying out hundreds of extrajudicial killings under the pretext of fighting crime. The UN human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said nobody was being held to account for the killings, suggesting the rule of law was virtually absent in Venezuela.

Also in the programme: Elections in Turkey and allegations the former tennis player Boris Becker carried a fake diplomatic passport.

(Photo: Venezuelan armed forces. Credit: Getty Images)

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