New video shines light on massacre of indigenous group by Venezuelan government

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New video shines light on massacre of indigenous group by Venezuelan government
By Jim Wyss
July 12, 2019

RFK Human Rights and Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal released footage showing atrocities committed allegedly by the armed forces loyal to Nicolás Maduro against indigenous communities along the Venezuelan-Brazilian border in February 2019. By

Brutal new images of an indigenous massacre in southern Venezuela emerged Friday, almost five months after the government deployed troops to keep international aid from entering the country.

The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization and the Venezuelan nonprofit Foro Penal released footage on Friday that appears to capture a government attack on a Pemón village, in which at least seven people died and 57 were injured.

The attacks came amid an attempt in February to move humanitarian aid from Brazil and Colombia into Venezuela. The government used troops to stop the deliveries. While much of the media attention was focused on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, where aid trucks were set afire amid the melee, the clashes in southern Venezuela were far more lethal.

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