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Coups should be considered Crimes against Humanity, say Intl’Organizations
Civil and Social organizations representing Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico, Austria and Ecuador requested on Tuesday in Mexico City that the United Nations considers coups d’etat as Crimes against Humanity.
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Civil and Social organizations representing Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico, Austria and Ecuador requested on Tuesday in Mexico City that the United Nations considers coups d’etat as Crimes against Humanity.
The initiative came from Argentinean writer Marcelo Fabian Monges, who gave the document to the representative in Mexico of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Alberto Brunori.
The text includes the request of submitting it to the Human Rights Council in Geneva for consideration.
The proposal came into being as a result of the coup d’etat in Honduras, which it describes as a breaking of the sovereign will of the people of that Central American nation, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.
In public statements, Monges underlined that all acts of this kind entail the perpetration of crimes included in the definition of Crimes against Humanity, like torture, disappearances and mass deportation, among other arbitrary acts.
He specifies that the establishment of a de facto regime in Honduras opened the door for a return to the past, with the re-establishment of a practice that signifies the abolition of citizens’ rights and the legal system.
PL adds that Monges, who lives in Mexico, has been a member of various organizations in defense of human rights and has collaborated with the newspapers Página 12, from Buenos Aires, and La Jornada, Reforma and El Universal, from Mexico.
The initiative came from Argentinean writer Marcelo Fabian Monges, who gave the document to the representative in Mexico of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Alberto Brunori.
The text includes the request of submitting it to the Human Rights Council in Geneva for consideration.
The proposal came into being as a result of the coup d’etat in Honduras, which it describes as a breaking of the sovereign will of the people of that Central American nation, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.
In public statements, Monges underlined that all acts of this kind entail the perpetration of crimes included in the definition of Crimes against Humanity, like torture, disappearances and mass deportation, among other arbitrary acts.
He specifies that the establishment of a de facto regime in Honduras opened the door for a return to the past, with the re-establishment of a practice that signifies the abolition of citizens’ rights and the legal system.
PL adds that Monges, who lives in Mexico, has been a member of various organizations in defense of human rights and has collaborated with the newspapers Página 12, from Buenos Aires, and La Jornada, Reforma and El Universal, from Mexico.