On
September 7, 2012 The New York Times reported on a
murder that occurred in Kenya dealing with a two Venezuelan Diplomats.
William Neuman reported that Dwight Sagaray was a diplomat for the Venezuelan
Embassy and he quickly moved up in the chain of command becoming the number 2 post
in the embassy in Nairobi. Then after the head of diplomatic mission lead under
some investigation of a sexual harassment charge; Mr. Sagaray was then
appointed to be the head of the diplomatic mission in
Nairobi. After being appointed Mr. Sagaray was then given all of
the perks of the job such as moving into the embassy residents. Shortly
after officials would then send Olga Fonseca Gimenez to take over and
this moving Mr. Sagaray out of his position and back to his old removing him from
the perks of the job. Twelve days after Ms. Gimenez took office she was
found brutally murdered in her house in the embassy
resident. Mr. Sagaray was then arrested by the Kenyan authorities and
charged for murder after being charged Mr. Sagaray was then told that his diplomatic
immunity that would save him from the charges was stripped. This strip of
immunity raised a couple of eyebrows on how his immunity could be stripped so
quickly and by whom. Later reported was that Mr. Sagaray was stripped of his
immunity because Venezuelan officials did not have enough time to do an
investigation on the matter.
Reading
this article showed me how greed will never pay. This article shows how perks
of a prestigious job can make people do ferocious things to others who actually
deserve the prestige. What sparked some interest was the diplomatic immunity
which saves a lot of diplomats from crimes worldwide and having the tables turn
on one so quickly can kind of put it in perspective that diplomats have
consequences. This also shows the global connection between crimes the Kenyan authorities
arrested and then found out if the immunity would apply and then charged Mr.
Sagaray doing everything in due time and the right way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/world/americas/venezuelan-diplomat-faces-murder-charges-in-kenya.html?_r=1&ref=world
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