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"Maduro Rejects OAS Role as Venezuelans Host Rival Marches
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We want to create chaos, to bring things to a complete stop, protesting student Luis Miranda, 20, said. If we set up barricades in every state of the country, we can stop people from moving around and we can achieve a national strike.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said a group of its experts have asked Venezuela to respond to allegations of arbitrary detention and excessive use of force against protesters and journalists.
We are deeply disturbed by the allegations of multiple cases of arbitrary detention of protesters, according to a statement posted on the offices website. Some were reportedly beaten -- and in some cases severely tortured -- by security forces, taken to military facilities, kept in incommunicado detention, and denied access to legal assistance.
Maduro earlier this week rejected any mediation effort by the OAS after Panama President Ricardo Martinelli called for the Washington-based organization to discuss the crisis. On March 5, Maduro retaliated by cutting diplomatic and commercial ties with the Central American nation, saying he wouldnt accept anyone conspiring against our country.