Posted on 06/09/2013 4:07:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Bolivian teen suspected of raping and murdering a woman was buried alive on top of her casket during her funeral by an angry mob of grieving relatives.
Santos Ramos, 17, allegedly sexually assaulted and strangled 35-year-old Leandra Arias Janco in the village of Colquechaca, in the Potosi district of Bolivia's southern highlands, on Sunday.
At her funeral Wednesday, local media reports a group of 200 vigilantes captured the teen and tied him up.
With Janco's coffin lowered into the ground, they reportedly threw him on top and started to cover him with dirt, reports Boliviaentusmanos.com.
It is not yet clear whether he survived the incident. But it has emerged that it was the second instance of mob justice handed out in the area that day.
Quechua residents of Tres Cruces stoned a suspected thief to death and burned his accomplice alive after they were busted stealing a car and killing its driver.
Sources said lynchings were not uncommon in the area, where the justice system is often corrupt and communities are known to police themselves.
> I remember reading about this. I am so sorry this happened to your and your family.
> Sometimes, the people just need justice. I am sorry your cousin was stopped.
It gets worse.
When the crematory mess was first discovered, the Georgia State Police came to the home of another cousin. She died 4 weeks prior and the police wanted her husband to identify the remains. He went with them, identified that the body was his wife and when the dropped him off back at his home, he went inside and shot and killed himself.
A lynching would have been too good for Marsh.
Rapist’s and murderer’s have their rights too. /s/
Zimmerman is being lynched by the state.
The correct term is “Niphonged.” Zimmerman is being Niphonged by the state.
When possible, the guilty should be executed in a manner similar to the method they used to kill their victim.
Most roads of good intentions (including vigilante and court) are lined with unintended consequences.
I have only seen the first Death Wish movie, but if I remember it correctly he was not a vigilante.
Simply a guy who intentionally put himself into dangerous situations and then exercised his perfectly legal right to use lethal force in self-defense.
A vigilante group tracks down and punishes those it believes deserve it. That's very different from just defending yourself.
Since the movie took place in NYC, the guy in the movie would have been guilty of firearms violations, but not murder, as such.
Sorry, but I disagree. Desecration of bodies is despicable, but no way it can justify lynching. It’s not the same as murder.
I have thought on this for quite a while... If we prohibited lawyers from holding political office, things might be a lot simpler, less cumbersome, and more common sense-based.
At the very least, we could rewrite the laws, eliminating 90% of them, and making the rest understandable by normal people.
Seems to me that the lawyers, by co-opting the political system, have worked to create a never-ending supply of jobs for themselves, rather than work for the good of the country.
You could say the samething about life in general... Being afraid of the consequences of your actions is not an excuse to do nothing, especially in response to evil.
I might just be me, but shouldn’t they have put him UNDER the Casket instead of on top of it?
I don;t know what kind of evidence they had on the guy,but it was pretty sick to throw the guy on top of the coffin of the victim.
Night riders, thundering up the road to the county seat in the middle of the night, everybody who heard it had to have pretty well known what was going on. They surrounded the county jail, attacked it, succeeded in breaking into the jail and took those two men away into the night.
One of my great grandfathers’ families had a large farm at a crossroads, sort of a village, post office in the general store sort of place. The farm extended back from that crossroads close to a mile toward the county seat, the westward border of it formed by that road, gully land alongside it, hilly, good for timber there and not much else. The bottomland, it was fertile, rich and level so it was planted. But that area was trees, nothing but trees, some quite large.
The mob on horseback stopped back there, with the two men. They hung them there, from a large oak. There they died.
The family set up a little turnout there, a sort of small private park with benches and tables, a sort of memorial site, for the families of the two slain men I suppose. Over time, the original reason for that little spot was forgotten and it became popular as a picnic site for city people headed up to the state park just beyond the county seat. They'd have been shocked to learn just what happened on that ground.
I know I was.
A great number of injustices were done by lynch mobs, but in the case I cited, possibly more justice than injustice. The victim was the son of a wealthy family who had been kidnapped for ransom, although he had been killed within hours of his kidnapping. The accused were seeking to employ an insanity defense, a fact which outraged the community. When the victim’s body was found ten days after the crime, somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 descended on the jail with purpose of lynching them both. The governor was aware of the situation and refused to call out the National Guard, and even cancelled his planned attendance at the Western Governor’s Council so that the Lieutenant could not call them out in his absence.
So true, but equally true is vast the numbers of otherwise intelligent people that fail to even consider the possibility of unintended consequences, much less what those unintended consequences could be. Of course the low information sheeple just think consequences, intended or unintended, are just life.
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