OAS Chief: World Must Prevent Venezuela ‘from Becoming Rwanda’

The head of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, warned on Monday that it is the responsibility of the international community to avoid a Rwanda-style genocide in Venezuela. “In essence, the responsibility to protect consists in preventing it from happening,” he wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet from Human Rights Watch director Jose Miguel Vivanco about the possibility of a genocide taking place in Venezuela. “We cannot wait until Venezuela becomes Rwanda, we must prevent it from becoming Rwanda.” Vivanco said that a military solution to the crisis in Venezuela would be against international law, which only permits the use of force in the case of genocide. More…