Country Reports: Venezuela

Annual Report 1993

The team was invited by the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights and the Committee of Relatives of Victims of the Events of February-March 1989 to participated in a seminar on forensic science and human rights. The team also to followed up the forensic work from the victims of the "Caracazo" case, in which an uncertain number of bodies were buried in mass graves. The killings took place during a crackdown by security forces on riots in February and March 1989.