AP IMPACT: Honduran police accused as death squads
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.
In a country with the highest homicide rate in the world and where only a fraction of crimes are prosecuted, the victims' families say the police are literally getting away with murder.
In March, two mothers discovered the bodies of their sons after the men had called in a panic to say they were surrounded by armed, masked police. The young men, both members of the 18th Street gang, had been shot in the head, their hands bound so tightly the cords cut to the bone.
That was shortly after three members of 18th Street were detained by armed, masked men and taken to a police station. Two men with no criminal history were released, but their friend disappeared without any record of his detention.
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AGAIN. It's all been done before. The last time this happened, and thousands of people were tortured and murdered, they claimed the ones they harmed were, by god, COMMUNISTS! Now the "Cold War" is officially OVER in the perception of the sane people of the world, they're right back killing the same poor people again, only now they're claiming they're just common CRIMINALS! Hey, ya gotta kill them! What will the other countries think of us if we don't?
We want to be keeping up with the imbeciles.
Same arrangement. Same results. Same dead victims. Now they're GANG MEMBERS, and soon, they may be declared DEAD COMMIE GANG MEMBERS AND DRUG GUYS. For sure, ya gotta kill all them there guys!
So many poor people to kill, so little time.
The U.S. Ambassador in Honduras at the time who became so despised by so many was John Negroponte, who dealt with outfitting, supplying these hired goblins to torture, mutilate, and brutally slaughter any and everyone who might be considered undesirable.
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Yum yum, death.
John Negroponte.
The man riding herd over this carnival of blood
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From the AP article:
Honduran National Police spokesman Julian Hernandez Reyes denied the existence of police units operating outside the law. He asserted that the two gangs are murdering each other while disguised as law enforcement.
"There are no police death squads in Honduras," Hernandez said in an interview. "The only squads in place are made of police officers who give their lives for public safety."
But there is mounting evidence of the existence of squads of police in civilian dress, apparently engaged in illegal executions.
