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REDACTED Page 125 of 190 Both Yasmir Tovar and Luis Fabián Aranyi were part of the Resistence Movement -a protest group formed after Leopoldo López’s detention-522 and used to regularly participate in opposition demonstrations, mainly in Altamira square.523 As they lived in the “23 de Enero” slum, a place ruled by pro government armed paralimitaries, they had received many threats to their lives before being killed.524 Tovar and Aranyi disappeared on the 20th February 2015, after participating in a demonstration in Caracas.525 On the next day, Yasmir Tovar’s family visited SEBIN detention centre in Helicoide, and they were informed that Tovar was there but that it was impossible to visit him. When they came back to visit Tovar the next day, they were informed that Yasmir wasn’t there. Hours later, the family found him in the morgue, tortured and dead.526 The Vice Minister of Criminal Investigations Raúl Utrera visited the morgue with a journalist team to interview Aranyi’s mother and Tovar’s brothers, and it was subsequently published in the official GoV media that “they [family] discard that they [Yasir and Luis] were killed because of they used to participate in ‘guarimbas’”.527 To this date the murders committed as a result of the GoV’s policy by the members of the national security forces and pro government armed paramilitaries answering to the 522 EL NACIONAL VENEZUELA. (2015) Los rostros de la Resisten 523 LUGO, A. (2015) ¿Quiénes eran Yamir Tovar y Luis Fabián?; RÍSQUEZ, R. (2015) El último día de Yamir Tovar en 4 estaciones 524 Rísquez, R. (2015) Estudiante de ‘Resistencia’ hallado muerto en Catia había sido amenazado por colectivos del 23 de Enero; RÍSQUEZ, R. (2015) El último día de Yamir Tovar en 4 estaciones 525 RÍSQUEZ, R. (2015) El último día de Yamir Tovar en 4 estaciones; REPORTERO24. (2015) Represión Yamir Tovar y Luis Fabian Elecutados por Colectivos. Reportero24. [Online] 1 March. Available from: http://www.reportero24.com/2015/03/represion-yamir-tovar-y-luis-fabian- ejecutados-por-colectivos/ [Accessed 25 October, 2015] 526 REPORTERO24. (2015) Represión Yamir Tovar y Luis Fabian Elecutados por Colectivos 527 http://cpnb.gob.ve/index.php/noticias/externas/935-familiares-de-jovenes-fallecidos-en-catia- desmienten-que-fuesen-asesinados-por-participar-en-guarimbas