Colombia’s ‘social cleansing’ phenomenon: Exterminating people like bugs
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombias social cleansing phenomenon: Exterminating people like bugs
written by Thomas Graham April 21, 2016
Legal authorities continue to turn a blind eye to so-called social cleansing practices that kill hundreds of undesirables in Colombias urban areas every year.
Social cleansing killings have a long, bloody history in Colombias major cities. For the most part they remain unsolved, yet to human rights monitors they are part of a vicious crusade against societys disposables, targeting vagrants, criminals, prostitutes, drug addicts, homosexuals and anyone deemed undesirable.
A new study from the National Center for Historical Memory and the National University indicates that social cleansing between 1988 and the first half of 2013 has left 4,928 bodies in its wake. However, state agencies do not report the same findings.
Human rights groups assert that these killings are carried our by vigilante groups who often attack in cycles, during which they target specific groups of people. Sometimes pamphlets are distributed beforehand, imposing curfews and making explicit threats. The marked bodies of their victims are often left to serve as deterrents.
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gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... OOPS! Make that, "the oligarchy already making life unlivable for ordinary folks; forget about those who don't conform to the diseased, arbitrary, and often draconian, standards imposed by the Religious Right and the mutant trolls in Congress that do their bidding." Hmmm... that's gonna be a tough acronym to remember.
In other words, you're already in it. What do you think the cops are doing across the country? The "lucky" ones will be scooped up in the dragnet to meet the ever-increasing quotas the private prison industry imposes on states that employ their services.
What quota is that, you ask? Why, the one in every state's contract that says they must supply X-number of inmates, or they'll STILL have to pay for those empty bunks AND the food those nonexistent prisoners aren't eating.
Tell me again what a wonderful place corporatist-controlled Amerika is; I love a good fairy tale.
appalachiablue
(41,140 posts)people and give them heavy fines which they'll have to work off for pennies in prisons for years if ever. Already in some states, maybe MS and Va., police target known undesirables like drunks. When spotted in stores they are picked up, fined $1,270 for a charge like public intoxication and taken to jail. Some are rented out to perform jobs like maintenance and yardwork with little supervision for lack of funds or cost cutting. And those state and private, corporate prisons in the US need bodies, I mean inmates you bet. Great job security and income. The new, legalized slavery in America., aka The New Jim Crow.