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Venezuela takes Colombia's President to the International Criminal Court over ‘extermination of migrants’
Venezuelan migrant families take refuge at a shelter in La Parada, near the border with Venezuela, in Cucuta, Colombia, Wednesday, October 6, 2021

VENEZUELA is taking Colombian President Ivan Duque to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the “extermination and persecution of migrants,” it was confirmed on Wednesday.

Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodiriguez announced that the Bolivarian government was lodging a case at the court regarding the killing of a 12-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man in Colombia’s Tibu municipality last week.

They were taken away by armed men on motorcycles after being caught shoplifting last Friday, and were later found dead by the side of the road.

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