UN accuses Nicaragua of crimes against humanity
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I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 22nd of September. A UN report accuses the Nicaraguan authorities of systematically attacking civilians. Scientists say the current Super El Nino is approaching record-breaking levels, weeks before its peak.
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Nicaragua had a troubled history in the twentieth century, with decades of dictatorship followed by the US backed contra war. That ended in nineteen ninety, but UN experts say crimes are being committed once again against civilians in Nicaragua. The UN report accuses the authorities of disappearances, torture, and arbitrary detention. In July, Nicaragua's long term ruler, Daniel Ortega, a former revolutionary leader, banned elections. I heard more from our global affairs reporter, Mimi Swabi.
This new report by UN Experts accuses Nicaraguan, the state institution, the authorities, of committing crimes against humanity to crush any dissent in the country and essentially control the population. They say authorities have coordinated enforced disappearances, torture, and arbitrary detentions of any political opponents, all being part of this widespread and very systemic crackdown on civilians. It went on to say that actually since twenty twenty three, the authorities have shifted towards a long term use of these enforced disimpericies and nationwide police raids aimed at basically eliminating any remaining pockets of dissent in the country and solidifying the absolute power that President Daniel Ortega has shared with his co president, his wife.
uh Rosario Murillo. So they have expanded these raids to new targets to include church members, indigenous leaders, and former state as well as military officials. And this is on top of The verified disappearances the UN experts have confirmed since twenty eighteen, being more than one hundred and sixty, and that is the date, a very significant date in Nicaragua, is when a wave of anti government protests rippled across the country, the largest in years. That left more than three hundred people dead and led to a mass exodus in the country as well of Nicaraguans.
Now are we seeing a return of the the dirty war, or at least the tactics seen then? Because Daniel Ortega was in power, left wing leader, when his government was destabilized by the US backed Contras.
We're definitely seeing a iron fist get even stronger. Daniel Ortega in July came out and said there will no longer be elections in the country. as he put it, to stop the opposition from seizing the government again. In September we then saw the Congress pass a constitutional reform which essentially would ban the opposition parties from taking part in that election. So again, solidifying the fact that he is going to maintain him himself in power as long as he can. This unsurprisingly has received a lot of criticism from the wider region as well as global leaders. The authoritarian leader, though, is also being accused by this report as well as other organisations of essentially exercising centralized control over the very institutions, the police, the courts, the prisons that are meant to protect people from abuse.
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