[DW] A UN report has detailed the extrajudicial executions of thousands of young men by special forces. The report says that the death squads are carrying out President Maduro's strategy for neutralizing political opponents.Venezuelan security forces have been sending death squads to commit extrajudicial killings of young men, according to a United Nations
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report released on Thursday. The scene of the crimes are then staged to make it look like the victims were resisting arrest.
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Caracas has said that about 5,287 people died last year when they refused to be detained by officers, and that this has been the case for a further 1,569 through the middle of May this year. However,
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the UN report suggests that many of these deaths were actually extrajudicial executions.
The report relays the accounts of 20 families, who say that masked men dressed in black from the Special Actions Forces (FAES) arrived at their homes in black vehicles without license plates. They then broke into their houses, assaulted the women and girls and stole belongings.
"They would separate young men from other family members before shooting them," the report said.
"In every case, witnesses reported how FAES manipulated the scene of the crime and evidence. They would plant arms and drugs and fire their weapons against the walls or in the air to suggest a confrontation and to show the victim had 'resisted authority.'"