UN presents evidence implicating Nicaraguan army in crimes against humanity
The United Nations group of experts investigating the responsibilities of the Ortega and Murillo regime point to the military, which has always denied its participation in political repression
The United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) has dismantled one of the Nicaraguan army’s key arguments, specifically the pretext with which it had avoided, as an institution, sanctions from the international community: that they did not participate in the repression of social protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in 2018. For the first time, the UN experts assure that they have “credible information” about the collusion of the military high command in the violent offensive, in which over 350 people were killed and — until now — only Sandinista police and paramilitaries are generally implicated.
