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Leroy N. Soetoro
Mar 11, 2023, 10:01:05 PM3/11/23
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nazi-germany-un.html>
A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
to try them overseas.
Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
In a news conference Thursday, the head of the investigation called for
international sanctions against the government and compared Nicaragua’s
track record on human rights to the Nazis, saying the current government’s
tactics to hold power beginning in 2018 were like those seen during the
Nuremberg trials.
“The weaponizing of the justice system against political opponents in the
way that is done in Nicaragua is exactly what the Nazi regime did,” Jan-
Michael Simon, who led the team of U.N.-appointed criminal justice
experts, said in an interview.
“People massively stripped of their nationality and being expelled out of
the country: This is exactly what the Nazis did too,” he added.
The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on the government and
family of President Daniel Ortega in recent years, though the U.N. report
could mean even greater repercussions, including charges in other
countries, according to human rights experts.
Under universal jurisdiction, any country’s courts can try people for
atrocities committed anywhere and has become a global mechanism for human
rights lawyers mostly in Europe to prosecute war crimes carried out by
governments such as Syria and Liberia.
“If let’s say Daniel Ortega’s son happens to be in Spain tomorrow, someone
could go to a local judge on these grounds and could convince them to go
arrest this guy,” said José Miguel Vivanco, adjunct senior fellow for
human rights at the Council of Foreign Relations.
The U.N.’s conclusion that Nicaragua carried out crimes against humanity
could also affect the government’s ability to secure international
financing, Mr. Simon said.
In 2018, Mr. Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, faced
off against a mass uprising of political dissent, as hundreds of thousands
of protesters demonstrated against cuts to social security and
deteriorating democracy, blocking the streets and paralyzing the country.
The government unleashed all the powers at its disposal to crack down on
the protesters, U.N. investigators found, with police forces and pro-
government groups acting in concert with deadly results.
The police fired on demonstrators in a systematic manner, jointly with
armed groups that were not authorized to use force, the report said.
Extrajudicial executions were committed by the police and groups allied
with the government. The police carried out highly coordinated operations
to shut down barricades using violent tactics, investigators found.
The U.N.’s analysis of 40 extrajudicial executions showed police agents
and pro-government groups acted in a “coordinated manner.”
By the time the demonstrations were finally halted, hundreds of people had
been killed.
To this day, Mr. Simon said, “violations continue to be committed.”
The government has denied deliberately killing protesters and has
categorized the protests as violent coup attempts, noting that at least
two dozen police officers also died. The government did not participate in
the U.N. report or allow investigators access to the country.
The investigators also said the government systematically carried out
arbitrary detentions and prosecutions of government opponents using
multiple government institutions, including the National Assembly, the
police, the judiciary, the public defender’s office, the penitentiary and
the Institute of Forensic Medicine. People were tortured in custody, the
report concluded.
“The Nicaraguan state, in fact, has been weaponizing literally all
institutions of the state in terms of control and repression,” Mr. Simon
said. “The word is weaponizing. They have been weaponizing the justice
system, weaponizing the legislative function, weaponizing the executive
function.”
The vice president, who serves as the government spokeswoman, did not
respond to a request for comment from The New York Times.
The report comes just weeks after the Ortega government stripped the
citizenship from 300 Nicaraguans who a judge called “traitors to the
homeland.” Those affected included human rights activists and journalists,
among others, most of whom live outside of the country.
The release of the U.N. investigation was a welcome surprise to human
rights activists.
“Before I got to jail, this was not the language used by experts. Now the
language is stronger,” said Juan Sebastián Chamorro, a Nicaraguan activist
who was released from detention last month after 611 days and is now based
in Houston.
“That means more evidence has been accumulated and can be used in a future
international court,” he said. “We are talking about more than 350 people
who were assassinated.”
Mr. Chamorro was among the hundreds of Nicaraguan political leaders who
were swept up since the 2018 protests first embroiled the country.
Rosalía Gutiérrez-Huete Miller, who was among the Nicaraguans who lost her
citizenship last month, said the U.N. report was the condemnation the
protesters were waiting for.
“Today’s legal conclusion validates and acknowledges what we have been
denouncing for years,” she said by phone from Washington, D.C. “There has
never been a declaration as clear as this one. Often these declarations
are wishy-washy, trying not to ruffle feathers.”
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recover with no after effects.
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Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
nazi-germany-un.html>
A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
to try them overseas.
Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
In a news conference Thursday, the head of the investigation called for
international sanctions against the government and compared Nicaragua’s
track record on human rights to the Nazis, saying the current government’s
tactics to hold power beginning in 2018 were like those seen during the
Nuremberg trials.
“The weaponizing of the justice system against political opponents in the
way that is done in Nicaragua is exactly what the Nazi regime did,” Jan-
Michael Simon, who led the team of U.N.-appointed criminal justice
experts, said in an interview.
“People massively stripped of their nationality and being expelled out of
the country: This is exactly what the Nazis did too,” he added.
The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on the government and
family of President Daniel Ortega in recent years, though the U.N. report
could mean even greater repercussions, including charges in other
countries, according to human rights experts.
Under universal jurisdiction, any country’s courts can try people for
atrocities committed anywhere and has become a global mechanism for human
rights lawyers mostly in Europe to prosecute war crimes carried out by
governments such as Syria and Liberia.
“If let’s say Daniel Ortega’s son happens to be in Spain tomorrow, someone
could go to a local judge on these grounds and could convince them to go
arrest this guy,” said José Miguel Vivanco, adjunct senior fellow for
human rights at the Council of Foreign Relations.
The U.N.’s conclusion that Nicaragua carried out crimes against humanity
could also affect the government’s ability to secure international
financing, Mr. Simon said.
In 2018, Mr. Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, faced
off against a mass uprising of political dissent, as hundreds of thousands
of protesters demonstrated against cuts to social security and
deteriorating democracy, blocking the streets and paralyzing the country.
The government unleashed all the powers at its disposal to crack down on
the protesters, U.N. investigators found, with police forces and pro-
government groups acting in concert with deadly results.
The police fired on demonstrators in a systematic manner, jointly with
armed groups that were not authorized to use force, the report said.
Extrajudicial executions were committed by the police and groups allied
with the government. The police carried out highly coordinated operations
to shut down barricades using violent tactics, investigators found.
The U.N.’s analysis of 40 extrajudicial executions showed police agents
and pro-government groups acted in a “coordinated manner.”
By the time the demonstrations were finally halted, hundreds of people had
been killed.
To this day, Mr. Simon said, “violations continue to be committed.”
The government has denied deliberately killing protesters and has
categorized the protests as violent coup attempts, noting that at least
two dozen police officers also died. The government did not participate in
the U.N. report or allow investigators access to the country.
The investigators also said the government systematically carried out
arbitrary detentions and prosecutions of government opponents using
multiple government institutions, including the National Assembly, the
police, the judiciary, the public defender’s office, the penitentiary and
the Institute of Forensic Medicine. People were tortured in custody, the
report concluded.
“The Nicaraguan state, in fact, has been weaponizing literally all
institutions of the state in terms of control and repression,” Mr. Simon
said. “The word is weaponizing. They have been weaponizing the justice
system, weaponizing the legislative function, weaponizing the executive
function.”
The vice president, who serves as the government spokeswoman, did not
respond to a request for comment from The New York Times.
The report comes just weeks after the Ortega government stripped the
citizenship from 300 Nicaraguans who a judge called “traitors to the
homeland.” Those affected included human rights activists and journalists,
among others, most of whom live outside of the country.
The release of the U.N. investigation was a welcome surprise to human
rights activists.
“Before I got to jail, this was not the language used by experts. Now the
language is stronger,” said Juan Sebastián Chamorro, a Nicaraguan activist
who was released from detention last month after 611 days and is now based
in Houston.
“That means more evidence has been accumulated and can be used in a future
international court,” he said. “We are talking about more than 350 people
who were assassinated.”
Mr. Chamorro was among the hundreds of Nicaraguan political leaders who
were swept up since the 2018 protests first embroiled the country.
Rosalía Gutiérrez-Huete Miller, who was among the Nicaraguans who lost her
citizenship last month, said the U.N. report was the condemnation the
protesters were waiting for.
“Today’s legal conclusion validates and acknowledges what we have been
denouncing for years,” she said by phone from Washington, D.C. “There has
never been a declaration as clear as this one. Often these declarations
are wishy-washy, trying not to ruffle feathers.”
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Leroy N. Soetoro
Mar 11, 2023, 10:01:11 PM3/11/23
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Mar 11, 2023, 10:29:32 PM3/11/23
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On 3/11/23 1:04 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/world/americas/nicaragua-human-rights-
> nazi-germany-un.html>
>
> A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
> government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
> to try them overseas.
>
> Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
> committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
> they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
> team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
Commies, NAZIs, Caliphs - pretty much all the same
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/world/americas/nicaragua-human-rights-
> nazi-germany-un.html>
>
> A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
> government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
> to try them overseas.
>
> Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
> committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
> they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
> team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
thing - just different-colored uniforms.
Well, it's been said that the NAZI holds the gun to
the RIGHT side of your head while the Commie holds
it to the LEFT side of your head ...... :-)
Leroy N. Soetoro
Mar 19, 2023, 11:16:23 PM3/19/23
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nazi-germany-un.html>
A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
to try them overseas.
Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
nazi-germany-un.html>
A U.N. inquiry found that President Daniel Ortega and top members of his
government committed human rights abuses, providing evidence for efforts
to try them overseas.
Nicaragua’s president, his wife and top members of the government
committed human rights abuses — including torture and murder — so serious
they amounted to crimes against humanity, a United Nations investigative
team concluded, providing evidence for any efforts to try them overseas.
Leroy N. Soetoro
Mar 19, 2023, 11:16:25 PM3/19/23
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