Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro Is accused of been responsible for 8,000 murders

(Den Hague) Luisa Ortega Venezuela’s ousted chief prosecutor on Thursday asked the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into President Nicolas Maduro and four other senior officials for alleged crimes against humanity.

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Venezuela's ex-chief prosecutor asks international court to try Maduro https://t.co/5gPVrxw9cg

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Ortega, who was fired after falling out with the Madurogovernment earlier this year, appeared at The Hague where she filed a complaint, based on the 8,290 deaths she says took place between 2015 and 2017 at the hands of officials who received instructions from the government.

“Nicolas Maduro and his government should pay for these crimes against humanity just as they must also pay for the hunger, misery and hardship they’ve inflicted on the Venezuelan people,”

Ortega said she was taking her complaint to the international tribunal because “it’s not possible to punish these people” in Venezuela, where she said the judiciary has been taken over by the ruling socialist party. Unfortunately for Maduro she managed to secrete damning evidence from her office before she left and handed it over to the International criminal court. 

It looks like the beginning of the end for yet another socialist experiment which has failed the people. George Orwell  got it so right when he wrote his children’s book  ‘Animal farm’  regards the ugliness of socialism in 1945.